Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

San Francisco’s Own Oil Spill: The Wasteful Hunt for Free Parking

By Michael Rhodes | Jun 17, 2010 | 26 Comments

Clement Street: scene of over-parked Sunday afternoons. Flickr photo: Rubin 110 Editor’s note: This will be Michael Rhodes’ last regular post as a reporter for Streetsblog. He’s leaving us for an urban planning career, but hopes to occasionally contribute columns like this in the future. Clement Street. Sunday. Noon. Drivers are circling around the block […]

New Parking App Maps Garages and Meters in San Francisco

By Matthew Roth | May 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

⁞ When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages city parking policies, completed the first-ever count of all the publicly available parking spaces in San Francisco, the agency hoped software developers would use the data to create apps to reduce the delays to transit caused by drivers circling the block […]

Could Showing Merchants the Money Make Parking Meter Trials Palatable?

By Michael Rhodes | May 7, 2010 | 5 Comments

A new street tree and sidewalk on Valencia Street. In other cities, merchants have welcomed extended parking meter hours when some of the revenue goes towards similar streetscape upgrades. Photo: Matthew Roth In his magnum opus, The High Cost of Free Parking, UCLA Professor Donald Shoup argues that city parking managers will build merchant support […]

SFMTA Board Extends Fiscal Emergency, Eyes Parking Meter Extension

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 30, 2010 | 9 Comments

SFMTA Board Director James McCray, Chair Tom Nolan and Director Shirley Breyer Black at today’s meeting. Board secretary Roberta Boomer in foreground. The SFMTA Board of Directors voted to continue the agency’s declaration of fiscal emergency today, but took a proposal to charge a premium for cable cars and express bus routes off the table, […]

San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces

By Matthew Roth | Mar 29, 2010 | 66 Comments

Meters along the Embarcadero are part of the Port of San Francisco’s SFPark trial. Photo: Matthew Roth No sizable city in the country, or likely the world, has been able to say with any certainty how many parking spaces it has, public or private, until now. Over the last 18 months, the San Francisco Municipal […]

Seniors, Youth and Disabled To Get Reprieve on Muni Fast Pass Increases

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 25, 2010 | 22 Comments

Mayor Newsom fields questions from reporters today at Showplace Triangle. Streetsblog reporter Michael Rhodes in foreground. Photo by Bryan Goebel. MTA Board Director Bruce Oka has confirmed to Streetsblog that a proposal to increase monthly Fast Pass prices for seniors, youth and the disabled will not be considered to help solve the MTA’s budget crisis […]

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