Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

Phil Matier’s Shameless Bid to Drum Up Resentment About Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2015 | 63 Comments

Phil Matier is apparently perturbed at the “rapid” pace at which SF plans to re-purpose less than 0.5 percent of its curbside parking spaces. In keeping with his habitual windshield perspective, Matier used both his SF Chronicle column and air time on KCBS radio today to spin a narrative about motorists getting “a giant middle finger” because a sliver of curb space is being […]

How Freeway Removal and Zero Parking Can Fend Off SF’s Triple Threat

By Jason Henderson | May 26, 2015 | 21 Comments

There is an urgent triumvirate of crises looming over San Franciscans. With median rents now exceeding $4,200, hyper-gentrification is tearing lives apart. Except for those surviving on rent control, the city is no longer welcoming to teachers, artists, and the entire middle class. Things are looking difficult in the East Bay, as speculators and realtors […]

Another Day, Another Driver Blocking Muni’s Busiest Metro Line

By Aaron Bialick | May 11, 2015 | 69 Comments

N-Judah riders can’t get any relief from idiots who leave their automobiles in the way of Muni’s busiest line. The entire length of the metro line was shut down for at least 40 minutes Thursday, starting at about 2 p.m., after the driver of an extra-wide pick-up with a raised chassis parked at the curb on Carl Street. The […]

Menlo Park’s Plan to Ruin Downtown With Parking Garages

By Andrew Boone | Apr 20, 2015 | 16 Comments

Building new parking garages in downtown Menlo Park will cost tens of millions of dollars while clogging streets with more traffic. But that’s what municipal leaders are seriously considering in an attempt to boost business, apparently oblivious to modern parking policies that have paid off for other Peninsula cities. Last month, the Menlo Park City Council voiced support […]

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All Meters Now SFpark-Ready — More Demand-Based Parking Pricing to Come

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 17, 2015 | 34 Comments

The SFMTA recently upgraded all of SF’s 29,000 parking meters to “smart meters” that are enabled for demand-based price changes throughout the day, a la SFpark. Now, the SFMTA plans to expand its smart pricing program that has curbed car traffic to more existing meters. “SFpark showed that demand-based pricing can improve parking availability without increasing double parking, congestion, […]

Supervisors Pass Breed’s Bill to Loosen Some Parking Mandates

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 15, 2015 | 6 Comments

The Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously passed an ordinance removing some of SF’s 1950s-era parking mandates. The “Parking Flexibility Ordinance,” drafted by Supervisors President London Breed and Livable City, will make it easier for building owners and developers to avoid building car parking when it would impinge on the street environment for walking, bicycling, and transit. It would also […]

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