Parking
Top Categories
How Freeway Removal and Zero Parking Can Fend Off SF’s Triple Threat
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 spread their tentacles of greed around every BART station.
May 26, 2015
Another Day, Another Driver Blocking Muni’s Busiest Metro Line
N-Judah riders can't get any relief from idiots who leave their automobiles in the way of Muni's busiest line.
May 11, 2015
Menlo Park’s Plan to Ruin Downtown With Parking Garages
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.
April 20, 2015
All Meters Now SFpark-Ready — More Demand-Based Parking Pricing to Come
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.
April 17, 2015
Supervisors Pass Breed’s Bill to Loosen Some Parking Mandates
The Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously passed an ordinance removing some of SF’s 1950s-era parking mandates.
April 15, 2015
CPMC Van Ness Construction Was Delayed to Save Church Parking on Easter
Church leaders successfully persuaded California Pacific Medical Center to delay a weekend traffic closure on Van Ness Avenue so a temporary ban on street parking would not coincide with Easter weekend.
April 8, 2015
Mayor Lee’s Doctor Prescribes “Balanced Diet” for San Francisco Streets
Mayor Ed Lee has appointed his personal physician, Dr. Barbara Peñalosa, as San Francisco's first Transportation Administrator.
April 1, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Idiots Continue to Park in the Oak Street Bike Lane
Looks like some tickets are in order.
March 17, 2015
Supervisor Breed Calls for Removing Some of SF’s Parking Mandates
Supervisor London Breed has proposed a "Parking Flexibility Ordinance" that would make it easier for building owners and developers not to build car parking when it would impinge on the street environment for walking, bicycling, and transit. It would also count parking spaces against density limits, unless they're built underground.
March 2, 2015
Daly City Votes to Continue Subsidizing Residential Parking Permits
Daly City’s City Council shot down a proposal last month to charge $40 a year for residential parking permits near the city's BART station. The permits, which give resident car owners privileged access to on-street parking, are currently free.
February 19, 2015