Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

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 […]

Eyes on the Street: Parked Car Sets House on Fire

By Aaron Bialick | May 28, 2014 | No Comments

Sometimes, internal combustion can become spontaneous combustion. On the night of May 17, the front of my neighbor’s house in the Inner Sunset caught on fire. Another neighbor said that the fire started in the engine of the car parked in their driveway. No one was hurt, and SFFD responded swiftly and effectively to put […]

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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 […]

Standing Up to the Naysayers: Tales of Livable Streets Leadership From NYC

By Aaron Bialick | May 2, 2014 | 22 Comments

Re-shaping city streets almost always runs up against some level of opposition — it’s part and parcel of physically changing what people often see as their territory. Whether residents get to have safer streets, however, often comes down to the elected leaders who stand up to the naysayers. In San Francisco lately, we’ve seen a […]

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