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Speak Out: SFMTA Board Could Scrap Sunday Parking Meters Tomorrow
Correction: The SFMTA Board meeting begins at 2 p.m., not 1 p.m. as previously stated. Depending on the number of speakers, the meeting could last hours. You can view the meeting live on SFGovTV 2.
April 14, 2014
The Case for Evening Parking Meters, Graphed
Every day at 6 p.m., San Francisco's parking meters shut down. But in many neighborhoods, motorists continue to seek parking, and without the turnover brought by meters, the streets become clogged with drivers circling around for a spot.
April 3, 2014
Reiskin: Let’s Keep Sunday Parking Meters, But Not Enforce Them
SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin said today that he thinks the agency should keep Sunday parking meters but back off on actually enforcing them.
April 1, 2014
Will SFMTA’s Board Buck Mayor Lee, Keep Sunday Parking Meters?
It's hard to believe that San Francisco officials are seriously considering repealing Sunday parking metering, and thus abandoning the entire basis of its lauded parking management program.
March 31, 2014
Contrary to Ed Lee, Records Show No Popular Revolt Against Sunday Meters
Contrary to Mayor Ed Lee's assertions that the public has revolted against Sunday parking meters, records indicate that hardly anyone has complained to City Hall about the policy via email or 311 calls.
March 20, 2014
Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley
“Parking is the single biggest land use in any city,” said UCLA Professor Donald Shoup to a packed house in Berkeley last night, “and it's almost completely unmanaged.” At the same time, “zoning requires a space for every car but ignores the homeless. In our cities, free parking is more important than affordable housing.”
March 20, 2014
Mayor’s “State of the City” Offers Tepid Support for Vision Zero
The mayor's "State of the City" speech last Friday was a major opportunity for Ed Lee to call for the changes needed to sharply reduce traffic deaths in San Francisco. Lee did endorse the Vision Zero goal, though it wasn't exactly a full-throated call to action. He also re-affirmed his desire to repeal metered parking on Sundays, ignoring the benefits reported by the SFMTA.
January 22, 2014
Mayor Lee’s Spineless Sunday Meter Reversal: Bad for Business, Bad for SF
After a years-long push to implement a smart parking policy in San Francisco, leave it to Mayor Ed Lee to take us back to 1947.
January 16, 2014
SFMTA Abandons Parking Meter Plans in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill
The SFMTA has given up on its neighborhood-scale plans to install parking meters in the Dogpatch and Portrero Hill, while parking meter approvals in the northeast Mission move forward at a snail's pace. After two years of tangling with the city, the defenders of dysfunctional free parking have effectively caused a huge setback for progressive transportation policy -- meaning more traffic and slower transit in the future. Hooray for San Francisco.
December 20, 2013
Supes Hamstring SFMTA’s Ability to Expand Progressive Parking Policy
In a setback for progressive parking policy in San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors voted last week to eliminate the SFMTA’s ability to install any significant amount of new parking meters under a new five-year contract to upgrade existing meters.
December 2, 2013