#49 Dollars for Drives: Tolls for private cars to enter specific areas
If it’s possible for the city to charge private cars through either Fastrak or some kind of license plate-recognition system, it ought to charge them $1-2 for entering specific zones that city residents don’t typically enter by car for their daily needs, e.g.:
- Golden Gate Park (excluding Kezar Drive transit)
- This would earn lots of revenue from drivers going between Marin County and the Peninsula (the park is too long to drive around easily).
- The Presidio
- Lincoln Park
- Downtown (but only when entering directly from I-80 or I-280)
- This should wait until Downtown has recovered economically.
- Lombard Street and “Veermont Slope” crooked blocks
- Twin Peaks Blvd
- Yerba Buena Island (excluding tunnel transit).
The city could also toll the following proposed tunnels and flyovers, in order to pay for them:
- Stow Lake Tunnel
- Buena Vista Tunnel
- Potrero Hill Tunnel
- 280-80 Connector.
To prevent people from using side streets, the proposed Richardson Avenue tunnel should not be tolled.