Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPark

How the Information Age Can Make Streets and Transit More Efficient

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 7, 2010 | No Comments

In Pittsburgh, elderly para-transit riders get automated phone calls with the precise arrival time of their vehicle. Bus priority lanes and preferential traffic signals in the Twin Cities are improving on-time service. Here in Washington, DC, stored value on SmartTrip cards pays for Metro parking, train and bus, and it can sync with pre-tax employee […]

New Video Sim Bets San Franciscans Will Heart SFPark

By Matthew Roth | Aug 6, 2010 | 27 Comments

In a refreshing turn, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages the streets of San Francisco, has produced an informative and whimsical animated short explaining how their dynamic parking management pilot, SFPark, will work. Unlike the maddeningly obtuse SFMTA website, the video (and pretty much everything else about the SFPark.org […]

SFPark Trial Poised to Begin as City Installs New “Coin and Card” Meters

By Matthew Roth | Jul 22, 2010 | 14 Comments

Click image to enlarge: the new single-space SFPark meters. Image: SFMTA. San Francisco’s parking and traffic managers know the public is going to love or hate the new SFPark demand-based parking management trial depending on how it delivers on the fundamental promises made from the beginning: The trial will make parking more convenient and efficient. […]

SFMTA to Hold Hearing for Additional 1310 Parking Meters

By Matthew Roth | Jun 8, 2010 | 13 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has scheduled an administrative hearing later this month so it can move forward with the installation of 1310 new single-space parking meters that accept credit cards, while extending time limits at those meter locations to four hours. The meters are expected to net the agency […]

The ‘Heart of SFPark’ Complete with Vehicle Sensor Installation

By Matthew Roth | Jun 1, 2010 | 6 Comments

Photo: Matthew Roth. When parking expert Donald Shoup publicized his principle several years ago that cities should manage the demand for curbside parking by adjusting the cost so that there was always an available space, he probably didn’t think a large city like San Francisco would move from theory to practice so quickly, nor that […]

New Parking App Maps Garages and Meters in San Francisco

By Matthew Roth | May 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

⁞ When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages city parking policies, completed the first-ever count of all the publicly available parking spaces in San Francisco, the agency hoped software developers would use the data to create apps to reduce the delays to transit caused by drivers circling the block […]

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