Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

Mayor’s “State of the City” Offers Tepid Support for Vision Zero

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 22, 2014 | 19 Comments

The mayor’s “State of the City” speech last Friday was a major opportunity for Ed Lee to call for the changes needed to sharply reduce traffic deaths in San Francisco. Lee did endorse the Vision Zero goal, though it wasn’t exactly a full-throated call to action. He also re-affirmed his desire to repeal metered parking on Sundays, ignoring […]

Mayor Lee’s Spineless Sunday Meter Reversal: Bad for Business, Bad for SF

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 16, 2014 | 67 Comments

After a years-long push to implement a smart parking policy in San Francisco, leave it to Mayor Ed Lee to take us back to 1947. The mayor wants to repeal parking metering on Sundays, undoing the slew of benefits that the policy has brought to the city in its first year. As a recent SFMTA […]

SFMTA Abandons Parking Meter Plans in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 20, 2013 | 56 Comments

The SFMTA has given up on its neighborhood-scale plans to install parking meters in the Dogpatch and Portrero Hill, while parking meter approvals in the northeast Mission move forward at a snail’s pace. After two years of tangling with the city, the defenders of dysfunctional free parking have effectively caused a huge setback for progressive […]

Supes Hamstring SFMTA’s Ability to Expand Progressive Parking Policy

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 2, 2013 | 40 Comments

In a setback for progressive parking policy in San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors voted last week to eliminate the SFMTA’s ability to install any significant amount of new parking meters under a new five-year contract to upgrade existing meters. The $54 million contract originally covered 25,000 parking meters that accept credit cards and multiple […]

SFMTA Board Greenlights Push to End Free Disabled Placard Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA and the Mayor’s Office on Disability produced this video explaining why free parking for disabled placard holders is bad policy.Looking to end the dysfunction caused by California’s failed policy of giving free parking to disabled placard holders, the SFMTA Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday giving agency staff the green light […]

Supervisor Farrell Ramps Up Misguided Campaign Against Parking Meters

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 14, 2013 | 30 Comments

Supervisor Mark Farrell is apparently so repulsed by the idea that people should pay for the parking spots they use, he’s lashing out in increasingly irrational ways. In his most recent stunt, Farrell delayed approval of a $54 million contract that would replace 25,000 worn-out, coin-fed parking meters with modern ones that accept credit cards, […]

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