Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

Oakland’s Holiday Gift: Parking Dysfunction and Traffic Congestion

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 30, 2012 | 17 Comments

The City of Oakland would apparently like to think it’s doing merchants and shoppers a favor by declaring all on-street car parking free every Saturday until New Year’s. Of course, parking meters were invented to encourage turnover and allow more driving customers to park near businesses. So while the city’s “gift” probably won’t do much […]

Signatures Grow for Petition Supporting SFPark Expansion

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 10, 2012 | 9 Comments

Update (Sept. 11, 7:53 p.m.): The pro-meter petition now has 197 signatures. ENUF’s anti-meter petition has 199. It’s pretty easy to find people who want to perpetuate the free parking giveaway on SF streets, despite the traffic and street dysfunction that result. But it turns out that it’s also not that hard to find people […]

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How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 31, 2012 | 47 Comments

If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains: If a city has […]

SFMTA Looks to Tackle Abuse of Handicap Parking Placards

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 15, 2012 | 38 Comments

Aiming to reduce handicap parking placard abuse, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency is in the early stages of an effort to reform state laws that enshrine free parking privileges for placard holders. Misuse of handicap placards deprives legitimately disabled drivers of reserved parking spaces close to their destinations, cheats the SFMTA out of public revenue, […]

Aiming to Win Over Critics, SFMTA Spells Out Its Parking Policies on Paper

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 10, 2012 | 62 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency’s embattled efforts to put a rational price on the city’s car parking supply by expanding parking meters have led the agency to develop a document [PDF] that, for the first time, lays out its parking policies in one place. SFMTA officials, who presented a draft to the SFMTA Board’s Policy and Governance Committee […]

Palo Alto, Choked By Famously Free Parking, May Consider Pricing the Curb

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 30, 2012 | 25 Comments

For the first time in 15 years, Palo Alto’s outdated parking policies are being reviewed, and planners will consider recommending sustainable parking principles in the downtown core to better manage the supply. The affluent Silicon Valley city has not had a comprehensive examination of its parking strategies since 1997, when it installed four color-coded parking […]

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