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All Meters Now SFpark-Ready — More Demand-Based Parking Pricing to Come

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 17, 2015 | 34 Comments

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. “SFpark showed that demand-based pricing can improve parking availability without increasing double parking, congestion, […]

MoveOn.org Apologizes for Promotion of “Stop SFMTA” Free Parking Petition

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 2, 2014 | 14 Comments

An online petition against parking meters in San Francisco has been gathering thousands of signatures ever since it was launched two years ago on MoveOn.org, a website that claims to host petitions that support “progressive” causes. It’s pretty easy to collect signatures from disgruntled drivers who have been stung by parking tickets, and who glance […]

SFpark Releases Pilot Report, Considers Giving Revenue to Local Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 20, 2014 | 37 Comments

SFpark has released new comprehensive stats collected during its two-year pilot program phase, documenting the numerous benefits that it garnered by pricing parking according to demand. SFpark is being watched closely by cities around the world, since it’s the first program to thoroughly test demand-based parking pricing principles first professed by UCLA’s Donald Shoup. But the […]

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The Case for Evening Parking Meters, Graphed

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 3, 2014 | 6 Comments

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. The big mismatch between meter hours and actual demand for curbside parking spaces in SF was demonstrated […]

Will SFMTA’s Board Buck Mayor Lee, Keep Sunday Parking Meters?

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 31, 2014 | 38 Comments

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. But next month, the SFMTA Board of Directors could send us back to 1947 — the last time parking meter hours were changed, before they were updated last year […]

Shoup: SFpark Yields Promising Results, Lessons for Demand-Based Pricing

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2013 | 13 Comments

Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark. “The biggest surprise I got was that prices went up and down, but overall, they stayed the same. The average price actually declined by 1 percent,” said […]

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