Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

CPMC Van Ness Construction Was Delayed to Save Church Parking on Easter

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 8, 2015 | 23 Comments

Church leaders successfully persuaded California Pacific Medical Center to delay a weekend traffic closure on Van Ness Avenue so a temporary ban on street parking would not coincide with Easter weekend. One block of Van Ness, between Post and Geary Streets, will be closed to car traffic this weekend so crews can construct a pedestrian tunnel […]

Mayor Lee’s Doctor Prescribes “Balanced Diet” for San Francisco Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 1, 2015 | 11 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee has appointed his personal physician, Dr. Barbara Peñalosa, as San Francisco’s first Transportation Administrator. In her new role, Peñalosa will have an unprecedented amount of authority over SF’s streets. As her first order of business, she has vowed to put city streets on a “balanced diet” by devoting at least 50 percent of street space […]

Eyes on the Street: Idiots Continue to Park in the Oak Street Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 17, 2015 | 49 Comments

Looks like some tickets are in order. Even with planted protective barriers alongside the Oak Street bike lane, some drivers haven’t got the message and continue to park or stop in it. It’s not clear if the violations are happening less often, and it’s still early in the learning curve, but the hope had been that the planters […]

Supervisor Breed Calls for Removing Some of SF’s Parking Mandates

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 2, 2015 | 5 Comments

Supervisor London Breed has proposed a “Parking Flexibility Ordinance” that would make it easier for building owners and developers not to build car parking when it would impinge on the street environment for walking, bicycling, and transit. It would also count parking spaces against density limits, unless they’re built underground. The ordinance [PDF] was approved by the […]

Daly City Votes to Continue Subsidizing Residential Parking Permits

By Andrew Boone | Feb 19, 2015 | 16 Comments

Daly City’s City Council shot down a proposal last month to charge $40 a year for residential parking permits near the city’s BART station. The permits, which give resident car owners privileged access to on-street parking, are currently free. The proposed fee, which amounts to 11 cents per day, elicited raucous opposition from public commenters at the council meeting. The fee would […]

New Bike Lanes in Sunnyvale Could Be Just the Beginning for El Camino Real

By Andrew Boone | Feb 18, 2015 | 12 Comments

To build a bike network, you’ve gotta start somewhere, and on El Camino Real, it started in Sunnyvale last month. The first bike lanes on El Camino Real are six feet wide, striped along the curb with no protection from traffic, running half a mile from Sunnyvale Avenue to Fair Oaks Avenue/Remington Drive, near the city’s […]

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