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Legislative Update: Bill to Remove Parking Minimums Near Transit Passes First Committee
Asm. Friedman's A.B. 1401 would allow developers to "right-size" the number of parking spaces
April 16, 2021
Commentary: Stop Subsidizing Car Ownership
If the city stops giving public land away for free to drivers, it can close its deficit and then some
January 21, 2021
Funds for San Diego “Park” Go Mostly to Free Parking for County Employees
Nobody's going to give San Diego County an award for park planning -- we hope! -- on its "Waterfront Park project," which is more accurately described as the "subsidized garage project."
November 5, 2015
The Top 5 Times Mayor Lee “Traded Safety for Convenience” on SF’s Streets
Mayor Ed Lee says he'll veto the Bike Yield Law because he's "not willing to trade away safety for convenience."
September 29, 2015
Aaron Peskin Consulted With Polk Street Bike Lane Opponents on Lawsuit
District 3 supervisor candidate Aaron Peskin provided consultation for Polk Street bike lane opponents earlier this year on filing a lawsuit over the street's redesign.
September 2, 2015
Drivers Lose a 27-Cent Parking Subsidy – KPIX and KTVU Lose Their Sh*t
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.
July 9, 2015
Someone Finally Figured Out How to Fix Parking Forever. Blame Canada!
Car owners in Hayes Valley will not stand by as "their" parking spaces are usurped by safe streets measures and "foreign" car-share "corporations" from places like "Delaware" and "Canada."
July 6, 2015
Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand
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.
June 12, 2015
TSP Rebooted: Bureaucratic Revamp Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets
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.
June 3, 2015
Phil Matier’s Shameless Bid to Drum Up Resentment About Parking
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.
June 1, 2015