Comments on: San Francisco Launches Ambitious Parking Reform Program

By: Albert Huynh

Albert Huynh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:07:51 +0000

Thanks for crediting my photo, great article.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:30:41 +0000

Interesting to note that San Francisco has permit parking and is still moving forward with raising meter rates. Good for them; in New York we have nothing but traffic, pollution and asthma and pathetic politicians.

No CP, a loss of $354 million, freeloaders parking throughout the city, and city tax dollars going to maintain bridges used by drivers. Although the are no toll roads in CA, there are no free bridges either.

BTW the problem with free parking on Sunday is that it allows people to park for free from Saturday at 7pm (maybe 10pm) until Monday morning. This encourages people to drive into the city and doesn’t give the turnover at the meters that merchants would like.

We need RPP, tolls on all bridges as a form of CP, a rationalization of toll prices, and the reinstitution of Sunday meters. What do we get? Some idiot City Council person in the Bronx wanting Sadik-Kahn fired over a left-turn signal. Pathetic.

By: Joe D.

Joe D. — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:54:39 +0000

I’m not sure why parking deserves more money and attention than cleaning up the disgusting Tenderloin neighborhood. Maybe our Mayor should use the millions of meter dollars to reduce crime and drug sales there. “Massage” parlors, drug/prostitution dens masquerading as gentlemen clubs, and your drug of choice available at any corner… but I suppose parking meters and paper grocery bags are his priorities.

By: Fran Taylor

Fran Taylor — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:30:56 +0000

I live in San Francisco, and the city and its mayor habitually speak out of at least two sides of the mouth at once. This program looks promising, but in the meantime, sidewalk parking is rampant and unenforced and drivers who mow down pedestrians in crosswalks rarely get cited. The mayor is an utter opportunist who loves to shout how green he is, but he quickly backed off from raising parking fines because some drivers squawked, in contrast to the indifference he showed when transit riders protested fare hikes and service cuts two years ago.

By: drose

drose — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:56:15 +0000

It’s on the PlanNYC website, listed as The Progress. I think this is the right URL:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/downloads/the-progress.shtml

By: BicyclesOnly

BicyclesOnly — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:44:35 +0000

drose, where do I get that report card?

By: drose

drose — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:12:54 +0000

I meant nuggets.

By: drose

drose — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:12:03 +0000

Quietly, Bloomberg issued a one-year report card on PlanNYC a few weeks ago.

Among the other nuggest buried within its pages (intentionally, perhaps?) was a note that MuniMeters are going to be placed on most blocks below 60th St. by June, and their use will be expanded throughout most of Manhattan by the end of this year where spots are already metered.

This should add to the number of spots available, as well as offer the city the option to try the SF test in NYC.

By: Batty

Batty — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:56:56 +0000

“(New Yorkers can thank their City Council for the traffic congestion caused by eliminating Sunday metering,”

I’m not sure where the hatred towards free parking on Sundays comes from. Sundays are my favorite day of the week to bike ride around the city, traffic is light though there are usually many more pedestrians out that do unpredictable things (walk against lights en-mass, etc…). There are quite a few businesses closed and if my parents (who have trouble walking for blocks and blocks) are coming in it’s easy to all drive somewhere without looking hard for spots.

Traffic picks up at night of course when everyone who drives out of the city for the weekend come back – but that has nothing to do with free parking.

For the record I’m absolutely for raising rates and congestion pricing types of solutions but I never had a problem with free Sundays – what am I missing?