Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parking

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Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2015 | 37 Comments

Two years after the city gave Fisherman’s Wharf a people-friendly redesign on two blocks of Jefferson Street, business is booming. Despite merchants’ fears that removing all car parking on the blocks would hurt their sales, they now say it had the opposite effect. The second phase of the project, which will bring a similar treatment […]

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TSP Rebooted: Bureaucratic Revamp Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 3, 2015 | 2 Comments

San Francisco agencies have re-introduced the Transportation Sustainability Program, a bureaucratic overhaul that could dramatically expedite improvements for walking, biking, and transit, while discouraging car parking in new developments. In developing the program, SF planners are also nearing completion of the nation’s first major study showing that dedicated car parking encourages driving. The TSP is three-pronged: It would overhaul SF’s development fee […]

Phil Matier’s Shameless Bid to Drum Up Resentment About Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2015 | 63 Comments

Phil Matier is apparently perturbed at the “rapid” pace at which SF plans to re-purpose less than 0.5 percent of its curbside parking spaces. In keeping with his habitual windshield perspective, Matier used both his SF Chronicle column and air time on KCBS radio today to spin a narrative about motorists getting “a giant middle finger” because a sliver of curb space is being […]

How Freeway Removal and Zero Parking Can Fend Off SF’s Triple Threat

By Jason Henderson | May 26, 2015 | 21 Comments

There is an urgent triumvirate of crises looming over San Franciscans. With median rents now exceeding $4,200, hyper-gentrification is tearing lives apart. Except for those surviving on rent control, the city is no longer welcoming to teachers, artists, and the entire middle class. Things are looking difficult in the East Bay, as speculators and realtors […]

Another Day, Another Driver Blocking Muni’s Busiest Metro Line

By Aaron Bialick | May 11, 2015 | 69 Comments

N-Judah riders can’t get any relief from idiots who leave their automobiles in the way of Muni’s busiest line. The entire length of the metro line was shut down for at least 40 minutes Thursday, starting at about 2 p.m., after the driver of an extra-wide pick-up with a raised chassis parked at the curb on Carl Street. The […]

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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