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.

via streetsblog

Tags: 60th street, array, city officials, manhattan south, parking meter, parking meters, parking tickets, peak hour, peak hours, peak periods, price hike, rush hour, san-francisco, street spots

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 7:51 pm and is filed under Getting Around, News.
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