Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPark

SFMTA Board Extends Fiscal Emergency, Eyes Parking Meter Extension

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 30, 2010 | 9 Comments

SFMTA Board Director James McCray, Chair Tom Nolan and Director Shirley Breyer Black at today’s meeting. Board secretary Roberta Boomer in foreground. The SFMTA Board of Directors voted to continue the agency’s declaration of fiscal emergency today, but took a proposal to charge a premium for cable cars and express bus routes off the table, […]

San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces

By Matthew Roth | Mar 29, 2010 | 66 Comments

Meters along the Embarcadero are part of the Port of San Francisco’s SFPark trial. Photo: Matthew Roth No sizable city in the country, or likely the world, has been able to say with any certainty how many parking spaces it has, public or private, until now. Over the last 18 months, the San Francisco Municipal […]

Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2010 | 1 Comment

The high-water mark for American parking policy came in the early 1970s, when cities including New York, Boston, and Portland set limits on off-street parking in their downtowns. They were compelled to do so by lawsuits brought under the Clean Air Act, which used the lever of parking policy to curb traffic and reduce pollution […]

MTA Must Act Quickly to Convince Merchants of Parking Plan’s Benefits

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

On Clement Street in the Inner Richmond, dusk doesn’t bring an end to the search for parking. Flickr photo: bigteetoe The recommendations in the MTA’s new parking study, which Streetsblog reported on yesterday, are designed to make it easier for customers to find a place to park when they visit businesses on evenings and Sundays. […]

MTA Releases Parking Meter Study that Proposes Extending Hours

By Matthew Roth | Oct 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel MTA Chief Nat Ford, at a reporters’ round table today, released the long-anticipated parking study conducted by his agency to measure the traffic impacts of increasing parking meter hours on weekday evenings and on Sundays [Summary PDF] [Full Study PDF]. The study recommends that the agency extend parking meter hours in specific […]

Mayor Newsom Still Opposed to Extending Parking Meter Hours

By Matthew Roth and Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2009 | 11 Comments

Flickr photo: KayVee.INC Mayor Gavin Newsom has been quietly pressuring MTA Chief Nat Ford to delay or prevent proposals to extend parking meter hours on weeknights and Sundays, despite a looming mid-year MTA budget deficit and studies that show it’s good policy, Streetsblog has learned. A study on the parking management and revenue implications of […]

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