I got a ticket once for not turning my wheels on 2nd between Townsend and Brannan. The law is your wheels must be turned if the grade is greater than 3%. The grade, according to the department of public works, is 3.09% (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsm.sfdpw.org&#x2F;subdmap&#x2F;subd&#x2F;Key_Maps&#x2F;319_gm.tif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsm.sfdpw.org&#x2F;subdmap&#x2F;subd&#x2F;Key_Maps&#x2F;319_gm.tif</a>). Next time I&#x27;ll bring my protractor.<p>the MTA is too lazy to do a lot of things. They employ antiquated technology and pass the cost of their own inefficiency to the consumer in every place they can.<p>-Adding money to a Clipper Card from the website takes several days before the credit can be used. Apparently this has to do with the specific scanning hardware they have on the buses and some legacy Translink interoperability issues or something.<p>-Many of the parking kiosks interface are confusing (I once tried helping a lady only to find out she&#x27;d put in $20 because she kept not understanding she had paid).<p>-Fare-checkers are extremely self-righteous and rude. I once got off the back door of a Muni train because I&#x27;d realized my Clipper card was empty. On the way to the front door to pay in cash, the fare-checker told me he was going to write me a ticket because I got on and off the bus and that, despite my honest intention to pay the fare, he was going to write me up.<p>-Towing is $600, which includes $250some in SF admin fees, $250 is towing, and other other fees the towing company can freely tack on to work around the maximum &quot;towing&quot; fee that the city allows (in my case, a Flatbed Truck fee of $80).<p>-If you car gets stolen, and the police find it you get a 30 minute &quot;courtesy&quot; window to get to your car before they tow your car and you pay $500-$600 to get it out of the impound.<p>A friend that works for the city was telling me that the MTA has a lot of inefficiencies because they have humans in the process every step of the way and no incentive to change that. When they need to modify the process, they just add another human and another fee.