Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

Budget Update Taken Off Agenda for Today’s MTA Board Meeting

By Matthew Roth | Oct 20, 2009 | 8 Comments

Although the MTA is facing a growing budget deficit that some estimate at $25-30 million or higher, the agency has not publicly talked about how it intends to close the gap, nor has it embraced revenue generators like expanded parking meter hours in commercial districts. An update of the FY 2010 budget was agendized last […]

Advocates Call for Turnout at MTA Board Meeting on Parking Study

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 16, 2009 | 17 Comments

Flickr photo: kaiyen At the MTA Board meeting this Tuesday, MTA staff will present the findings of the pathbreaking parking study [Summary PDF] [Full Study PDF] released earlier this week. It’s the only official discussion of the study scheduled for now, and advocates for transit and parking reform will need to attend in force to […]

Donald Shoup Calls San Francisco Parking Meter Study “Pathbreaking”

By Matthew Roth | Oct 15, 2009 | 21 Comments

With the debate about parking meter rates and hours raging on both sides of the Bay, Streetsblog called UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking and arguably the world’s foremost parking expert, and asked him his opinion on the new San Francisco MTA parking meter study, which was released on […]

MTA Must Act Quickly to Convince Merchants of Parking Plan’s Benefits

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

On Clement Street in the Inner Richmond, dusk doesn’t bring an end to the search for parking. Flickr photo: bigteetoe The recommendations in the MTA’s new parking study, which Streetsblog reported on yesterday, are designed to make it easier for customers to find a place to park when they visit businesses on evenings and Sundays. […]

MTA Releases Parking Meter Study that Proposes Extending Hours

By Matthew Roth | Oct 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel MTA Chief Nat Ford, at a reporters’ round table today, released the long-anticipated parking study conducted by his agency to measure the traffic impacts of increasing parking meter hours on weekday evenings and on Sundays [Summary PDF] [Full Study PDF]. The study recommends that the agency extend parking meter hours in specific […]

Oakland Council Rolls Back Parking Changes Amid Cries From Merchants

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2009 | 18 Comments

Grand Lake Theater owner Alan Michaan exhorts the public to "Stop the Parking Madness!" Photo: DigiAnt During another raucous staging of political parking theater at last night’s Oakland City Council meeting, where more than 90 speakers often shouted their opinions on the city’s parking policy, the council reversed its position from July, scaling back the […]

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