Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Permits

SFMTA Board Approves Pilot for Child Care Provider Parking Permits

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 2, 2011 | 20 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors approved several parking policy changes Tuesday, including a pilot program to provide residential parking permits for child care providers. The board also decided to end free parking for SFMTA employees and establish a 2-hour time limit for broken parking meters. A number of people testified for and against allowing nannies to […]

SFCTA Completes Exhaustive Parking Study, Supervisors Delay Action

By Matthew Roth | Jul 21, 2009 | 5 Comments

Residential Parking Permit (RPP) zones. Courtesy: TA The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA) presented the results of the comprehensive parking study it started in 2006 to the Board of Supervisors today, fleshing out many of the parking management principles espoused by parking guru Donald Shoup in his High Cost of Free Parking and recommending […]

A San Francisco Parking Enforcement Debate That Shouldn’t Be Happening

By Bryan Goebel | May 22, 2009 | 20 Comments

Flickr photo: andreil Why is San Francisco — considered by many around the world to be a “progressive” and “green" city with a Transit First policy — still debating whether to extend meter hours and parking enforcement, even in the face of a crippling Muni budget deficit? Didn’t we merge Muni with the Department of […]

BART Releases 2010 Budget, But Board Doesn’t Debate Its Merits

By Matthew Roth | Apr 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo by dav id from East Bay Indymedia Despite meeting for more than seven hours yesterday, the BART Board of Directors never managed to discuss the budget, in no small part because of the drama and theatrics of a public enraged about the shooting of Oscar Grant on January 1st and the release of an […]