Rachel Gordon writes about the proposal for a 90-day test of Sunday metered parking. But alas, the Mission was left out. Could the MD’s exclusion have anything to do with Mission Loc@l’s survey of 131 businesses and their resounding no (106 against) to metered parking on Sundays or extended hours on weekdays? It would be nice to think that all of that work had some impact.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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If they keep parking free on Sundays, will they make Muni free too? Oh, they won’t? Low-income transit riders have to shoulder the burden but car-owners are spared? That’s awesome.
Great, it will remain impossible to find a parking spot in the Mission on Sunday. Woohoo!
Wait, why doesn’t the Mission (or any neighborhood) get to dodge Sunday Muni fees?