Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Becomes Golf Fan Parking at Lake Merced

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 4, 2013 | 12 Comments

A buffered, post-separated bike lane on John Muir Drive along Lake Merced was commandeered for car parking this weekend for attendees of a golf tournament. Staff from the “Champion’s Tour” Charles Schwab Cup Championship were directing drivers to treat the bike lane as an angled parking lane. Attendees and passersby using the bike lane for its […]

Parking-Obsessed Extremists Threaten Plan for Safer Walking on Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 29, 2013 | 58 Comments

Update: A petition in support of wider sidewalks on Potrero has been created. In what may be a new low for selfish opposition to street safety measures, flyers and a petition full of misinformation are being circulated against wider sidewalks on Potrero Avenue. Believe it or not, this one’s not a joke, and the city may water down its pedestrian […]

Potrero Ave. NIMBYs Lead Supes to Grapple With the Minimum Parking Myth

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 23, 2013 | 63 Comments

For NIMBYs fighting a residential building project in the northeast corner of the Mission on the basis of negative environmental impacts, you might think minimizing the number of new car parking spaces is a good thing. After all, the more parking that goes into a project, the more residents tend to own and drive cars. […]

Eyes on the Street: Trucker Blocks Crosswalk at New “CityTarget”

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 16, 2013 | 26 Comments

As if Geary and Masonic wasn’t already hostile enough to pedestrians, here’s an example of street dysfunction exacerbated by freight traffic at the newly-opened CityTarget. Winston Parsons happened upon a delivery truck driver setting up shop in a crosswalk and, he said, impeding buses on the 43-Masonic. In the video he submitted, Parsons confronts the driver, […]

The New “CityTarget” at Geary and Masonic: Driving Is Encouraged

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 10, 2013 | 154 Comments

Do Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue need more car traffic? The marketers of the newly-opened “CityTarget” store seem to think so. The mailers announcing the opening of the supposedly urban-style store (clearly, it’s more like the downtown Metreon store than the suburban, parking-locked store in Serramonte) advertise the fact that it offers free parking — […]

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Swapping Parking for Public Space on Irving: Merchants May Have Warmed Up

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 10, 2013 | 4 Comments

Most merchants on central Irving Street in the Sunset may have come around to the idea of turning 12 parking spaces into sidewalk extensions with greenery and stylized seating fixtures. At an open house community meeting last week, the opposition to the proposal seen at the previous meeting in August seemed to have largely dissipated, […]

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