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SFMTA Board Greenlights Push to End Free Disabled Placard Parking
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 to pursue state legislation that would allow local jurisdictions to charge placard holders at meters.
November 21, 2013
Supervisor Farrell Ramps Up Misguided Campaign Against Parking Meters
Supervisor Mark Farrell is apparently so repulsed by the idea that people should pay for the parking spots they use, he's lashing out in increasingly irrational ways.
November 14, 2013
Potrero Ave. Safety Redesign Limps Toward the Finish Line
Updated 11/14, 2:34 p.m. with response from Supervisor David Campos below.
November 13, 2013
Supes Narrowly Reject EIR Appeal Against Car-Free Condos at 1050 Valencia
The proposed parking-free, 12-unit condo and retail development at 1050 Valencia Street narrowly cleared a hurdle Tuesday after a 6-5 vote by the Board of Supervisors, which rejected an appeal that contended the project should be required to have a full environmental impact report.
November 7, 2013
ENUF Delays Mission Parking Meters by Protesting the Wrong Ordinance
The Eastern Neighborhoods United Front, a group publicly represented by resident Mari Eliza, apparently turned out enough speakers and letters to postpone the approval of parking meters requested by merchants in the Mission at a hearing Friday.
November 6, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Becomes Golf Fan Parking at Lake Merced
A buffered, post-separated bike lane on John Muir Drive along Lake Merced was commandeered for car parking this weekend for attendees of a golf tournament.
November 4, 2013
Parking-Obsessed Extremists Threaten Plan for Safer Walking on Potrero
Update: A petition in support of wider sidewalks on Potrero has been created.
October 29, 2013
Potrero Ave. NIMBYs Lead Supes to Grapple With the Minimum Parking Myth
For NIMBYs fighting a residential building project in the northeast corner of the Mission on the basis of negative environmental impacts, you might think minimizing the number of new car parking spaces is a good thing. After all, the more parking that goes into a project, the more residents tend to own and drive cars.
October 23, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Trucker Blocks Crosswalk at New “CityTarget”
As if Geary and Masonic wasn't already hostile enough to pedestrians, here's an example of street dysfunction exacerbated by freight traffic at the newly-opened CityTarget. Winston Parsons happened upon a delivery truck driver setting up shop in a crosswalk and, he said, impeding buses on the 43-Masonic.
October 16, 2013
The New “CityTarget” at Geary and Masonic: Driving Is Encouraged
Do Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue need more car traffic? The marketers of the newly-opened "CityTarget" store seem to think so.
October 10, 2013