SFpark Releases Pilot Report, Considers Giving Revenue to Local Streets
SFpark has released new comprehensive stats collected during its two-year pilot program phase, documenting the numerous benefits that it garnered by pricing parking according to demand. SFpark is being watched closely by cities around the world, since it's the first program to thoroughly test demand-based parking pricing principles first professed by UCLA's Donald Shoup. But the SFMTA hasn't yet adopted one of Shoup's key recommended strategies: Giving some of the revenue to local community benefit districts to help win support for parking meters.
June 20, 2014
Today’s Headlines
SFMTA Delays Shuttle Stop Pilot Program; No Action to be Taken at Hearing This Morning (Examiner) Muni Delayed by Nearly-Nude Man on Bus Who Demanded Rights at Sunday Meter Hearing (KTVU) Castro Street’s New, Wider Sidewalks Opened in Time for Pride as Promised (Curbed) Planning Department Developing Plans for Sidewalk Upgrades, Bulb-Outs on Ocean Ave … Continued
June 20, 2014
Chron’s Math: Re-Purposing 0.01 Percent of Parking = “Devouring” Parking
The SF Chronicle published its take on the SFMTA's proposed network of permitted stops for private shuttles. These proposed stops would re-purpose 0.01 percent of the city's on-street parking supply as white zones. According to the Chronicle, that equates to Google buses "devouring parking," as its headline puts it.
June 19, 2014
SFMTA Adds Two Left Turn Bike Boxes in SoMa
The SFMTA installed left turn bike boxes at two SoMa intersections this week. This type of bike infrastructure, new to SF, debuted at Market and Polk Streets last month with the new contra-flow Polk bike lane.
June 19, 2014