Monday, April 18, 2011

Suisun City Council Is Too Pro Business? Now More People Have Jobs. Parking A Bit More Difficult. Catch 22.

Suisun City Council had to fight off people who complained about lack of business downtown.  That was before too much business came to Suisun.  Some of them picked Suisun over Fairfield.

Now people are complaining about a lack of Suisun parking space.  Can't win?

At least Suisun won't need parking meters anytime soon.  San Francisco is now brainstorming how to innovate parking meter payment through cell phones http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/04/san-francisco-parking-meter-cell-phone.html

Being on the Suisun City Council is no easy job.  Suisun City Council members tell "Solano Business News" that you get hit both ways.

Apple's future iPhone 5 is predicted to enable users to pay for just about anything via cell phones.

Solano BART In Future Plans?

The costs of extending BART into Solano County is way more than Solano tax payers are willing to pay.  So lack of BART extensions can't be used to criticize Solano politicians who have too little to say in the matter.

Meanwhile San Francisco and Marin are getting huffy and puffy about adding bullet trains to their existing train networks
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/04/18/high-speed-eshoo-simitian-gordon.html

Green energy and mass transport are the way to go.  Who will pay?