Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Donald Shoup

Could Showing Merchants the Money Make Parking Meter Trials Palatable?

By Michael Rhodes | May 7, 2010 | 5 Comments

A new street tree and sidewalk on Valencia Street. In other cities, merchants have welcomed extended parking meter hours when some of the revenue goes towards similar streetscape upgrades. Photo: Matthew Roth In his magnum opus, The High Cost of Free Parking, UCLA Professor Donald Shoup argues that city parking managers will build merchant support […]

Donald Shoup Calls San Francisco Parking Meter Study “Pathbreaking”

By Matthew Roth | Oct 15, 2009 | 21 Comments

With the debate about parking meter rates and hours raging on both sides of the Bay, Streetsblog called UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking and arguably the world’s foremost parking expert, and asked him his opinion on the new San Francisco MTA parking meter study, which was released on […]

Oakland City Council Delays Parking Vote for Two Weeks

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Oakland’s electronic parking meters. Flickr photo: mlinksva The Oakland City Council voted early this morning to delay action on proposed parking changes until its next meeting. After three hours of discussion that spilled well beyond midnight, a proposal to roll back parking meter enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. was narrowly defeated, despite calls […]

Shoup Weighs in on Oakland Parking Controversy

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 3, 2009 | 7 Comments

A newly installed SFpark parking meter in San Francisco. The SFpark program was inspired by Donald Shoup’s theories on parking management. Photo: Bryan Goebel If the recent parking battle in Oakland had you thinking of UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, you’re not alone. After the Oakland City Council raised parking fines and extended parking meter hours […]