Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

SFpark Releases Pilot Report, Considers Giving Revenue to Local Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 20, 2014 | 37 Comments

SFpark has released new comprehensive stats collected during its two-year pilot program phase, documenting the numerous benefits that it garnered by pricing parking according to demand. SFpark is being watched closely by cities around the world, since it’s the first program to thoroughly test demand-based parking pricing principles first professed by UCLA’s Donald Shoup. But the […]

Chron’s Math: Re-Purposing 0.01 Percent of Parking = “Devouring” Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 19, 2014 | 16 Comments

The SF Chronicle published its take on the SFMTA’s proposed network of permitted stops for private shuttles. These proposed stops would re-purpose 0.01 percent of the city’s on-street parking supply as white zones. According to the Chronicle, that equates to Google buses “devouring parking,” as its headline puts it. This is seriously the narrative the […]

Supes Reject Appeal for CEQA Review of Sunday Parking Meter Repeal

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 18, 2014 | 30 Comments

The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 yesterday to reject an appeal, filed by sustainable transportation advocates, to require environmental review of the SFMTA’s repeal of Sunday parking meters. Although the vote was not on the merits of Sunday parking metering, but rather whether the SFMTA violated the California Environmental Quality Act in repealing it, the […]

San Jose Diridon Area Plan Could Add Parking, Lose Trail, Pass Council Tues.

By Andrew Boone | Jun 16, 2014 | 9 Comments

Just four days before San Jose’s City Council was expected to approve the Diridon Station Area Plan, a four-year-old community-based plan to guide the next 30 years of transit-oriented redevelopment around the Diridon Caltrain Station, city officials released a memo on June 6, proposing numerous amendments in response to City Council questions and public comments made […]

Sunday Meter Repeal Needs No CEQA Review, Say SFMTA and Planning Dept.

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 13, 2014 | 18 Comments

An appeal claiming that the repeal of Sunday parking meters is an action that requires environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act is baseless, according to responses issued by the SFMTA and Planning Department this week. The appeal, filed by Livable City and the SF Transit Riders Union, is set for a hearing and vote at […]

Are SFMTA’s Proposed Shuttle Stops Enough to End Muni Conflicts?

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2014 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA has released a proposed map of Muni stops where commuter shuttles would be permitted to load passengers, part of the agency’s 18-month pilot program to test private-bus regulation. Shuttles currently use many of these stops, and the resulting conflicts between shuttles and Muni buses has led to transit delays. SFMTA says it hopes to […]

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