Incognito mayor catches naughty cablecar conductors

[dianeduane]

"He usually rides [the cablecars] on Sunday down to the Powell Street turnaround...He likes to check and see how the tourists are being treated."

...At one point, he even kept two recycling bins in the trunk of his town car so he could scoop up litter he spotted while driving from meeting to meeting.

But apparently some people, like the Chief of Police, are less than impressed with this whole civic-minded thing (which apparently came to include the mayor getting irate about all the drug dealers he kept seeing when jogging through the Tenderloin).

"With all due respect, Mr. Mayor, we could put a cop on every corner, and the drug dealers would just deal in between them,'' Delagnes said. "But if you are really tired of seeing drug dealers, there is one solution I could suggest."

"What's that?'' the mayor asked.

"Try jogging somewhere else."

Just no pleasing some people...

Comments

[ailbhe]

But how can one pocket a fare when one has to issue a ticket?

[janeway216.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, the conductors are required to give every rider a receipt for their fare, and then at the end of the day they count the number of receipts given and use that to reconcile with the cash the conductor turns in. What Newsom observed was that conductors were failing to issue receipts to riders every now and then -- without a receipt, the city doesn't know about the fare, and there's your Starbucks money for the day.

[ailbhe]

A receipt and not a ticket. I... see. I'm more used to transport firms having inspectors, I suppose, so passengers will insist on getting a ticket in case they are questioned.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

He sounds so ... NICE.

How'd he get to be a politician?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

You do wonder.