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Posted on July 28 at 11 p.m.
Thanks Matt, but as far as I can tell the taxis in the Airport queue have the standard rates printed on the sides of their cabs. As far as I can tell their big challenge is to try to time being in the taxi parking spots right next to the terminal (there are 3 or 4 such spots) when a big flight disgorges returning passengers.
That timing is tough, granted. And you only get one bite at the apple, that is, once you've picked up a fare by the time you return, no returning air passengers will be left.
So the airport cabbies strongly prefer high-value fares when they pick up from a returning flight. `Strongly prefer' means they will cuss at you and threaten you if you only need a $10 fare and you refuse to pay a $20 premium in addition. I know I've experienced it many times.
Now you could argue that the cabbies should be able to choose their customers. All business owners have that right. However, the cabbies use public property at the Airport to do their pickups. At other Airports the cabbies have no choice but to pick you up for the stated price (well, in the civilized world, anyway).
Matt, if you think the Airport (which is, after all, in the City of Santa Barbara) charges a special premium for Airport cabbies, you should state the details of that premium. If that premium is $20/fare, I'll eat my words.
Posted on July 25 at 7:40 a.m.
Ever try to get a ride from the SB Airport to locations within 3 miles from the Airport? The cabbies parked at the airport will tell you: either pay me $30 or get out of my cab. They want the big fares to Montecito when they get a spot at the airport. They simply refuse shorter fares. I've made the 3 mile walk home (sometimes in the rain) carrying and dragging my luggage just to avoid their extortion.
Now the Indy wants me to feel compassion for them? I'd like to, but unfortunately, I lost my compassion after their third refusal to give me a standard prices (via the meter) ride from the airport.
Posted on July 9 at 5:49 p.m.
And the South Coast at large is *not* old, immature, and overpriviledged?
On the one hand I felt bad about the folks who evacuated, on the other hand, their stories of wealth and priviledge didn't exactly endear them to me.
Ohmygod, my $3 million dream house built right next to a fantastically dangerous fire area is in danger! Thank goodness the State of California is spending $10 million to save my entirely unsustainable house! Good thing I could load my 8 dogs and cats into the SUV and stay with friends in La Jolla!
IV blows away the rest of the South Coast for devotion of actual man-hours to charitable endeavor. Now the bigger checks do come from the wealthy folks in the enclaves, and good on them. But day in day out, at the IV Youth Project or the IV school or St. Mark's or in CAB, the IV community contributes an enormous amount to this place. Not to mention all the volunteering at EDC or Save the Ocean and Channelkeepers and on and on.
The only group that was soliciting on the street that I encountered to donate to the Chinese earthquake victims was at UCSB.
Posted on July 9 at 12:56 p.m.
What's great about the IV column is the authors haven't yet learned to spin the facts to only present the good side.
I mean, when have you ever read a column that delved into the vast drug use in Montecito and Hope Ranch, or the healthy prostitution industry servicing Santa Barbara tourists? When a young woman dies of a cocaine overdose in the Montecito Inn, or a Hope Ranch resident takes a High School student athlete hostage and homosexually abuses him, everyone pretends it is an aberration, because all the precursing circumstances are omitted from public dialogue. Not to mention the periodic exposure of prostitution rings in downtown SB.
Even the Indy avoids the hot topics that go against the conventional wisdom, at least locally. They don't want to lose the ad revenue from all the conventional folks who profit from the status quo.
Behavior in IV is actually milder than the rest of the South Coast, but the behavior is on the surface and documented. All the aberrant behavior on the rest of the South Coast is buried, well, except for the gangs.
InTheKnow, the LA police realized that Christiansen had committed three IV murders in addition to his behavior in LA. His CDL had a Solvang address. When he had been stopped on the South Coast prior to the LA behavior, he had a gun with the same caliber as that used on the 3 IV women, but he was let go... didn't fit the profile of a Manson-type IV resident.
And why has Sabado Tarde never been made safe for pedestrians? Easy... the road money is siphoned off, and the rest of the County (via LAFCO) knew loads of Measure D money would flow to a City of Goleta if IV was incorporated as part of the City. LAFCO wants to keep IV in penury to suck funds out of UCSB.
Posted on July 8 at 2:29 p.m.
When has anyone outside IV every given a rat's posterior about IV's issues? I mean four folks were killed on Sabado Tarde in 2001, and the rest of the South Coast continues to siphon off all of IV's road money.
And so there are still no sidewalks where the quadruple murder occurred in 2001.
Or remember Patty Laney.... the SB Counties Deputies thought her murderer had to be some IV freak, but he turned out to be a nice boy from Solvang, and so they let him slip through their investigation a few times. Only the LA police figured it out. Oh, he murdered 3 other IV women.
Not to mention exclusion from the City of Goleta, in contradiction to all the lofty principles of LAFCO.
This outside-IV indignation is just swill.
Good article, Nikki.
Posted on June 13 at 4:59 a.m.
It's been delightful to read you over the past 2 years, Mollie. Godspeed.
Posted on June 10 at 12:33 p.m.
A few administrators in a room with a calendar is not much of a conspiracy... a week or two earlier would have been fine, but then the candidates for 3rd District Supervisor would have focused a good amount of attention on the hearing, which UCSB did not want.
Posted on June 10 at 8:21 a.m.
Well, VoiceofSB, maybe there would be more money if our law enforcement folks weren't able to retire with full benefits at age 50.
On Goleta Gets Police, Party, and Potentially Problematic Planning
Posted on June 9 at 8:48 a.m.
sbreader.... you bet UCSB intentionally scheduled the meeting the day after the June 3 election, which guaranteed the activists would all be pooped.
Not even Doreen Farr and Steve Pappas, who would have gotten free publicity and attracted votes, bothered to show up.
The Coastal Commission is in UCSB's pocket.
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Posted on August 13 at 12:58 p.m.
Nice article and thanks Cat!
On My Name Is Cat Neushul and I Live in I.V.