Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

Avalos “Disgruntled” Over Paying for His City Hall Parking Perk [Updated]

By Aaron Bialick | May 28, 2014 | 19 Comments

Update: Avalos said on Twitter that his email was meant as a joke. Supervisor John Avalos sent out an email today complaining about the $173 he pays monthly for a reserved parking spot in front of City Hall. That’s even though he pays less than half the $395 going price for a reserved parking spot […]

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Census: SF Has Enough Street Parking Spaces To Fill CA’s Coastline

By Aaron Bialick | May 22, 2014 | 39 Comments

Clarification: California’s coastline (840 miles) is shorter than the end-to-end length of SF’s on-street parking spaces alone (900 miles). This post originally compared it to the length of SF’s total public parking supply (1,451 miles long), which is actually longer than the United States’ west coast from Mexico to Canada (1,360 miles). Here’s a point […]

SFTRU, Livable City Want CEQA Review of Sunday Parking Meter Repeal

By Aaron Bialick | May 15, 2014 | 15 Comments

Updated 4:16 p.m. with comment from Supervisor John Avalos. Livable City and the SF Transit Riders Union have filed an appeal claiming that the SFMTA’s vote to repeal Sunday parking meters requires California Environmental Quality Act environmental review. Given that the policy change is expected to double the average time drivers take to find a commercial parking […]

“MonkeyParking” — A Testament to the Absurdity of Free Car Storage

By Aaron Bialick | May 6, 2014 | 10 Comments

A new app called “MonkeyParking” being tested in San Francisco has made the rounds in local media this week for its bizarre driver-to-driver payment system. Here’s how it works: A driver leaves her car in a valuable parking spot and tells other app-using drivers that she is willing to move it for a price of […]

Free Parking Forever: Motorhead Group Wants to “Restore Balance” in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 24, 2014 | 53 Comments

The vast majority of San Francisco’s street space is devoted primarily to moving and storing cars, and most of that curbside parking for private automobiles is given away for free. Most of the city’s street infrastructure is not paid for by fees related to driving, so it is disproportionately bankrolled by those who don’t drive, […]

SFMTA Board Repeals Sunday Parking Meters

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 15, 2014 | 130 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors today caved to pressure from Mayor Ed Lee by removing Sunday parking meters, a move folded into its approval of the agency’s two-year budget. The Sunday meter reversal was supported by all but one of the SFMTA’s board members, who are appointed by the mayor. Board member Cristina Rubke said she […]

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