Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Sharing

Street Parking in SF: Fees for Car-Share, Free for Car Owners

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 30, 2013 | 80 Comments

With hundreds of on-street parking spaces around San Francisco set to become available for car-share vehicles, the SFMTA plans to charge companies monthly fees for the conversion of curbside spots that are normally free. So while companies like City Car-Share, Zipcar, and Getaround — which offer services that make it easier for residents to go […]

SFMTA to Designate Hundreds of Curbside Parking Spots for Car-Sharing

By Aaron Bialick | May 21, 2013 | 4 Comments

Hundreds of on-street parking spaces across the city will be reserved for car-share vehicles starting in September as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency looks to provide more convenient alternatives to owning a car. Following a nearly two-year pilot designating 12 curbside spaces for the non-profit City CarShare, the SFMTA is planning a major expansion [PDF] […]

Livable City: Extra Parking for Car-Share Could Be Abused

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 7, 2012 | 15 Comments

Update 3/5/13: This bill was finally approved by the Board of Supervisors. Developers would be allowed to skirt limits on car parking if they devote the extra spaces to car-sharing, under a proposal approved unanimously by the SF Planning Commission yesterday. The bill [PDF], which advocates warn could be abused as a loophole to expand […]

SFMTA Plans Major Expansion of On-Street Car-Share Parking Spaces

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 7, 2012 | 5 Comments

Curbside parking spaces reserved for car-share vehicles could become much more widespread in San Francisco under a proposed expansion of the Municipal Transportation Agency’s on-street car-share pilot program early next year. Last August, the SFMTA implemented 12 on-street pilot spaces with the non-profit organization City CarShare. Now the agency is planning an expansion of more than 100 spaces, which […]

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RAND: Car-Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions From Cars By 1.7 Percent

By Tanya Snyder | May 15, 2012

The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It allows people to give up their personal vehicles (along with the gas, maintenance, parking, and insurance costs they entail) without giving up the ability to use the car once in a while when necessary. It diminishes […]

SFMTA to Test On-Street Car-Share Parking Spaces

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 26, 2011 | 14 Comments

Car share members in San Francisco could soon be picking up their vehicles from exclusive curbside parking spaces. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is launching a pilot program in mid-August to test at least ten on-street car share “pods” as part of its SFPark program. “On-street car sharing pods (i.e., locations where users […]

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