By Alexander Mullaney, Mission Local
Mayor Ed Lee described his double-parking epiphany.
There on one block of Valencia Street were three double-parked vehicles, he told supervisors at the mayor’s monthly visit to the board on Tuesday. The drivers, he realized, had no regard for the law.
It was at that moment, the mayor said, that he vowed to never again double park.
Moreover, he promised himself, as he drove around the city on official business, he would use his security detail to ticket double-parked vehicles.
“It’s not just a passing issue, it is dangerous on our streets,” Lee said.
The exchange was part of the mayor’s answer to District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener’s question about what Lee would do to mitigate double parking.
What the mayor and the supervisors are discovering, however, is that double parking is likely to endure for a while.
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