Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking Meters

Drivers Lose a 27-Cent Parking Subsidy – KPIX and KTVU Lose Their Sh*t

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 9, 2015 | 36 Comments

The sky is falling! San Francisco drivers paying parking meters with credit cards will no longer get their 27-cent credit card transaction fees bankrolled by the SFMTA. For KPIX and KTVU, this was the scandal du jour. “It’s already pricey to park,” said KPIX anchor Elizabeth Cook. “How bad is it really going to get?” “We’re talking 27 more […]

Menlo Park’s Plan to Ruin Downtown With Parking Garages

By Andrew Boone | Apr 20, 2015 | 16 Comments

Building new parking garages in downtown Menlo Park will cost tens of millions of dollars while clogging streets with more traffic. But that’s what municipal leaders are seriously considering in an attempt to boost business, apparently oblivious to modern parking policies that have paid off for other Peninsula cities. Last month, the Menlo Park City Council voiced support […]

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All Meters Now SFpark-Ready — More Demand-Based Parking Pricing to Come

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 17, 2015 | 34 Comments

The SFMTA recently upgraded all of SF’s 29,000 parking meters to “smart meters” that are enabled for demand-based price changes throughout the day, a la SFpark. Now, the SFMTA plans to expand its smart pricing program that has curbed car traffic to more existing meters. “SFpark showed that demand-based pricing can improve parking availability without increasing double parking, congestion, […]

MoveOn.org Apologizes for Promotion of “Stop SFMTA” Free Parking Petition

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 2, 2014 | 14 Comments

An online petition against parking meters in San Francisco has been gathering thousands of signatures ever since it was launched two years ago on MoveOn.org, a website that claims to host petitions that support “progressive” causes. It’s pretty easy to collect signatures from disgruntled drivers who have been stung by parking tickets, and who glance […]

SF Will Never Build the Ed Lee Parking Meter Monument

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

Ed Lee isn’t the first San Francisco mayor to go to bat for free parking. But maybe he’ll be the first to realize that this is no way to leave a lasting legacy — the city will never build a monument to his crusade against parking meters. The beautiful renderings in this post, depicting a […]

Cars-First “Restore Balance” Measure Funded by Ed Lee Backer Sean Parker

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 14, 2014 | 73 Comments

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee’s mayoral campaign in 2011. The ballot initiative, which proponents frame as an attempt […]

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