Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

Watch Muni Explain the Need to Crack Down on Parking Scofflaws — In 1988

By Aaron Bialick | | 6 Comments
When it comes to effectively enforcing parking regulations to make San Francisco’s streets work more efficiently, SF hasn’t changed much since 1988. That’s when Muni planner Jerry Robbins created the above video, explaining why it’s so important to keep drivers from parking in transit-only lanes or blocking intersections, and to make sure delivery drivers aren’t hogging loading […]

Thanks to Sup. Farrell, It’s Finally Legal to Store Bikes in Your Garage

By Aaron Bialick | | 12 Comments
In a trailblazing move that advances sustainable transportation policy in San Francisco, Supervisor Mark Farrell successfully changed an outdated and mostly unknown law that prohibited San Franciscans from using their residential garages to store anything besides automobiles. That’s right — until now, an archaic law in the city’s Housing Code required that garages be used […]

Parking Shared Cars Instead of Private Cars Isn’t Exactly “Privatization”

By Aaron Bialick | | 76 Comments
The SFMTA’s endeavor to reserve on-street car parking spaces for car-share vehicles has yielded complaints from some car owners who, ironically, decry the “privatization” of space currently used to store private cars. These folks don’t seem to acknowledge the extensive research showing that each car-share vehicle replaces, on average, nine to 13 privately-owned cars. They should […]

Cars-First “Restore Balance” Measure Funded by Ed Lee Backer Sean Parker

By Aaron Bialick | | 73 Comments
Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee’s mayoral campaign in 2011. The ballot initiative, which proponents frame as an attempt […]
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