Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPark

SFMTA Abandons SFPark Expansion in Favor of Conventional Meters

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 4, 2012 | 84 Comments

The SFMTA announced yesterday that it would no longer include areas of the Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Mission neighborhoods in its pilot expansion of SFPark after pushback from a vocal group of opponents. However, SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose said the agency is still proposing to install conventional parking meters, which lack the technology that allows […]

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The Gap in SFPark’s Captivating Data Set

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 15, 2012 | 6 Comments

Speaking of extending parking meter hours… In the New York Times today, Michael Cooper and Jo Craven McGinty examine how SFPark’s parking price adjustments have affected San Francisco streets so far: It is too early to tell whether the program is working over all, but an analysis of city parking data by The New York Times […]

Will City Hall Get on Board With Extending Parking Meter Hours?

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 15, 2012 | 17 Comments

Giving away free curbside car parking when it’s in demand on Sundays and evenings just doesn’t make any sense. The point may feel somewhat belabored to Streetsblog readers, but it’s highly relevant at the moment and hugely important for the city’s streets and transit system. Political momentum to end the traffic congestion and dysfunction caused by unregulated […]

Mayor Lee Backs SFPark Dogpatch/Potrero Plan at Supes Meeting

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 14, 2012 | 10 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee stood behind the merits of the SFMTA’s SFPark program at a Board of Supervisors meeting today when questioned about the recent backlash against parking meter expansions in the Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods. Those proposals have been put on hold while the SFMTA conducts more outreach to neighbors and merchants. During the […]

Will SF’s Leaders Turn Transport Policy Innovations Into Lasting Change?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 27, 2012 | 82 Comments

San Francisco was one of two cities this week to receive the Institute for Transportation and Development’s prestigious 2012 Sustainable Transport Award. No doubt, the ITDP award was well-deserved for the SFMTA’s successful implementation of the groundbreaking SFPark program, as well as the SF Planning Department’s proliferation of parklets under its Pavement to Parks program. Those efforts […]

SFPark Mission Bay Plan Sees Backlash from Potrero Hill Residents

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 13, 2012 | 74 Comments

An SFMTA plan to put a rational price on car parking around the developing Mission Bay area has run into fierce backlash from residents and merchants from the Potrero Hill, Dogpatch and northeastern Mission neighborhoods. The SFPark program’s Mission Bay Parking Management Strategy is “meant to address the existing severe parking availability issues and to get […]

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