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Might be a great idea! But, in San Francisco, the devil is always in the details. Some one will raise objections and exceptions will be made to classes of people. I have no idea who, but it will happen.

For example, how about, "toll passes put too much additional stress on those with AIDS taking drug cocktails." There will be a toll tag exception for anyone who claims to have AIDS or who might ever transport some one with AIDS or any material that might ever be used for/by some one with AIDS. Toll tags, by definition, must be unfair to minorities. The mayor and key city employees MUST be able to move freely around the city so all city employees will be exempt from toll tags. This would be a key issue in negotiations with the union who represent ccity employees at the next extortion session. I gotta believe that the homeless who live in different shelters every night and have to drive in to Market Street to harrass the tourists should be exempt.

No, the toll tag concept probably is a great idea. It is the corruption of that concept by the neocommunists who run the city that will give normal people the biggest laughs.

"But, in San Francisco, the devil is always in the details."

I'd support the concept except for the fact that it will not be equitably applied once the politicians begin carving out exceptions. As a former resident of San Francisco, I know that there is no way this concept would be limited to commercial only areas, as there are very few of these in the city. So they would extend the toll roads into mixed use areas, and then begin exempting certain residents from the tolls around their homes. Eventually, you will have a system complicated enough to invite corruption, and the system would get corrupted.

My second issue has to do with the costs to operate MUNI and BART. Will the fares for these services to and within the city be reduced to reflect the new source of revenue to subsidize these systems, or will the systems be improved substantially? There is no way that fares will be reduced as the public has already shown a tolerance for such amount, but I had to bring up the point. Also, I doubt that either MUNI or BART will see expansion of their service areas, nor will the volume of transit vehicles increase dramatically, so I don't see any significant improvement in service.

Therefore, this will simply be a windfall tax increase for San Francisco, and the Board of Supervisors will find creative ways to spend the revenue without significantly improving the traffic situation in the city. So, I'd have to oppose the plan if I still lived in San Francisco.