Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Sharing

Someone Finally Figured Out How to Fix Parking Forever. Blame Canada!

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 6, 2015 | 38 Comments

Car owners in Hayes Valley will not stand by as “their” parking spaces are usurped by safe streets measures and “foreign” car-share “corporations” from places like “Delaware” and “Canada.” That’s according a couple of bizarre anonymous flyers spotted recently around the neighborhood that appear to take aim at the arrival of on-street car-share parking spaces and plans to make crosswalks safer […]

Eyes on the Street: New On-Street Car-Share Parking Spots in Action

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 20, 2014 | 2 Comments

The first in a new wave of on-street car-share parking spaces are on the ground, kicking off the eventual roll-out of 900 spots planned by the SFMTA. I spotted the pair of Zipcar spots above on 20th Avenue at Irving Street in the Sunset on Saturday, and they were apparently already being used. The first […]

Leave it to KTVU to Sensationalize One Car-Share Parking Space

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 23, 2014 | 9 Comments

KTVU reporter David Stevenson is at it again, with a new report about reserving one on-street parking spot for car-share vehicles. With Stevenson’s history of muckraking about lawfully helmet-less bicyclists, and a handful of re-purposed parking spaces, this sort of scandalous scoop is right up his alley. Stevenson glosses over the fact that car-share vehicles open up […]

Parking Shared Cars Instead of Private Cars Isn’t Exactly “Privatization”

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2014 | 76 Comments

The SFMTA’s endeavor to reserve on-street car parking spaces for car-share vehicles has yielded complaints from some car owners who, ironically, decry the “privatization” of space currently used to store private cars. These folks don’t seem to acknowledge the extensive research showing that each car-share vehicle replaces, on average, nine to 13 privately-owned cars. They should […]

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Map: SFMTA’s 900 On-Street Car-Share Parking Spots Coming Along

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 30, 2014 | 16 Comments

Updated with new version of the map here [PDF]. The SFMTA is rolling right along with its plans to reserve 900 on-street parking spots for car-share vehicles, which will bring a convenient alternative to car ownership to more of the city. The agency has published a draft map [PDF] of proposed car-share spaces throughout the […]

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50 More On-Street Car-Share Spaces Proposed — Support One Near You

By Aaron Bialick | May 15, 2014 | 13 Comments

About 50 on-street car-share parking spaces could be approved at an SFMTA engineering hearing tomorrow. That’s your chance to write in, or show up at City Hall, to support a smart move by the SFMTA: placing car-share vehicles in convenient locations citywide, and putting everyone within easy reach of this alternative to car ownership. The […]

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