Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Elderly & Disabled

SFMTA Board Greenlights Push to End Free Disabled Placard Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA and the Mayor’s Office on Disability produced this video explaining why free parking for disabled placard holders is bad policy.Looking to end the dysfunction caused by California’s failed policy of giving free parking to disabled placard holders, the SFMTA Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday giving agency staff the green light […]

Advocates for the Disabled Say Free Parking for Placard Holders Must End

By Aaron Bialick | May 20, 2013 | 5 Comments

A panel of disability advocates, the SFMTA, and other entities has recommended that handicap parking placard holders no longer be given free parking at meters. As the SF Examiner and the Chronicle reported, the policy recommendation came out of a committee formed to tackle the growing problem of placard abuse, which deprives legitimately disabled drivers of reserved […]

Cleaning Up SF’s Car-Littered Sidewalks Will Take More Than Parking Tickets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2013 | 41 Comments

Cars littered on San Francisco’s sidewalks are a painfully common sight. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in outer neighborhoods like the Sunset and Bayview, where, for decades, homeowners with residential garages have paved over their front yards. The pedestrian environment on these streets is left degraded, with swaths of dead space where families and people […]

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How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 31, 2012 | 47 Comments

If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains: If a city has […]

SFMTA Looks to Tackle Abuse of Handicap Parking Placards

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 15, 2012 | 36 Comments

Aiming to reduce handicap parking placard abuse, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency is in the early stages of an effort to reform state laws that enshrine free parking privileges for placard holders. Misuse of handicap placards deprives legitimately disabled drivers of reserved parking spaces close to their destinations, cheats the SFMTA out of public revenue, […]

Disability Advocate Cristina Rubke Confirmed to SFMTA Board of Directors

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

Renowned disability advocate and attorney Cristina Rubke was confirmed by the Board of Supervisors today as the newest member of the SFMTA Board of Directors. Rubke was nominated by Mayor Ed Lee to replace outgoing member Bruce Oka. She was roundly praised by colleagues at a recent Board of Supervisors Rules Committee hearing for her willingness […]

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