Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPark

SFMTA Brings Back Parking Meter Planning to Tough Crowd in the NE Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 30, 2012 | 48 Comments

Following fierce opposition that led the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to roll back its first attempt to expand car parking meters in the northeast Mission, the agency re-started a community process last night to develop a plan for managing parking demand in the area. The meeting was seen as a litmus test for the public’s openness — and […]

Signatures Grow for Petition Supporting SFPark Expansion

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 10, 2012 | 9 Comments

Update (Sept. 11, 7:53 p.m.): The pro-meter petition now has 197 signatures. ENUF’s anti-meter petition has 199. It’s pretty easy to find people who want to perpetuate the free parking giveaway on SF streets, despite the traffic and street dysfunction that result. But it turns out that it’s also not that hard to find people […]

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How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 31, 2012 | 47 Comments

If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains: If a city has […]

Aiming to Win Over Critics, SFMTA Spells Out Its Parking Policies on Paper

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 10, 2012 | 62 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency’s embattled efforts to put a rational price on the city’s car parking supply by expanding parking meters have led the agency to develop a document [PDF] that, for the first time, lays out its parking policies in one place. SFMTA officials, who presented a draft to the SFMTA Board’s Policy and Governance Committee […]

Sunday Parking Meter Enforcement to Begin January 6

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2012 | 54 Comments

Parking meters in San Francisco will be enforced on Sundays starting January 6, 2013, confirms SF Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson Paul Rose. The meters will be in effect from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. As the SF Chronicle reported today, the SFMTA will also pilot an extension of meter hours in the evening around the Giants ballpark […]

Andy Thornley Departs SFBC to Work at SFPark

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2012 | 11 Comments

In a “bittersweet farewell,” the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition announced today that its policy director, Andy Thornley, has been picked for an internship at the SFMTA’s SFPark program. His transition to city government is a positive sign for the livable streets movement in San Francisco. Thornley sent an email to colleagues today announcing that he’ll […]

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