Well, starting this september, SF Parking Meter prices are going up in certain places during peak hours. Which does not make sense to me at all as parking tickets in San Francisco are ridiculous already. Downtown parking tickets are $50 minimum and now they want to add peak hour price hike?!?
All of this of course will use “more” technology embedded in the parking meters which surely means parking tickets will go up too.
Is Gavin Mayor simply wasting his time? Maybe he should focus on something else, this isn’t going to solve any problems except make the city officials/government rich.
And why do I have to find out about this from a blog in New York!?!
Starting in September, the $23 million SFpark program will use an array of new policies and technologies to raise meter prices during peak periods, so as to make parking more easily available, thereby reducing rush hour driving, cruising for spaces and double parking. SFpark will include 6,435 curbside spots. This is a quarter of San Francisco’s curbside parking, and is roughly comparable to the 6,500 metered curbside spots in Manhattan south of 60th Street. The project also includes variable pricing for the 11,677 off-street spots managed by the city.
Got Screwed too
October 12, 2008
San Francisco parking meters may start at 7am as well. I got screwed for a $50 ticket for parking at Mission and 5th at 7:20am. Never in my LIFE have I seen a meter start at 7am and the irony is I looked on the meter for hours, looked to make sure there wasn’t street cleaning etc. The sign was on the back of the meter which I discovered after getting the $50 ticket.
Totally screwed up.