Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

At Car-Free Marina Path Meeting, Parking-First Boaters Balanced by Sanity

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 18, 2013 | 20 Comments

Update 12/19: DPW now has an online survey you can take about removing parking on the Marina path. Marina boat owners riled by the prospect of removing underused car parking from the Marina Boulevard bicycle and pedestrian path got a bit of a reality check at a meeting last week. Some neighbors in attendance made […]

The Bay Area Needs More Walkable Housing, Not Google Bus Bashing

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 11, 2013 | 93 Comments

The anger of the protestors who blockaded a Google bus in the Mission on Monday was very real and understandable. San Francisco residents, living in a highly sought-after city with a limited housing supply, are coping with a crisis of skyrocketing rents and evictions. Meanwhile, Muni riders increasingly find their stops blocked by private shuttles that appear […]

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 […]

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SFMTA Board Wants the Option of a Full-Length Bike Lane on Polk

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 27, 2013 | 169 Comments

As the vote on the Polk Street redesign approaches in the coming months, the SFMTA Board of Directors last week requested that planners present the board with a pilot project option for bolder bike safety improvements along the length of the project area. Currently, the SFMTA’s preferred option calls only for sharrows and rush-hour parking bans on […]

Eyes on the Street: BART Lets Station Agents Park Inside MacArthur Station

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 27, 2013 | 28 Comments

Think the inside of a transit station is a completely inappropriate place to store automobiles? BART begs to differ. BART is officially allowing its station agents to store their personal cars inside MacArthur Station in Oakland. You can’t make this stuff up. Daniel Diiullio tweeted two photos of cars parked right next to the agent […]

Curbside Bikeway at Fort Mason Only Temporary, Set to Be Removed

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 26, 2013 | 10 Comments

The bike lane we spotted at Fort Mason last week, which replaced a lane of car parking on the northern end of Van Ness Avenue, could be removed any day now, according to city staffers. The bike lane was installed temporarily as part of the People Plan, intended to encourage visitors to bicycle during the […]

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