SFist: Park in the Park

fizzandpop

Thu, 24 May 2007 16:34:23 -0800

Where are all the howls of protest from the hipsters who use that lot to learn how to ride thier trendy new mopeds? Oh that's right, you can't email a scowl.

Eve

Thu, 24 May 2007 16:09:22 -0800

Panhandle Lady is right, the block on DMV parking is pretty new. In addition, you used to be able to park in the old Faletti lot (now Albertson's) at Masonic and Fulton during off hours. Once that lot went away, parking in the area got worse than ever, and losing those B of A spaces (also off hours available) sure didn't help. Having the DMV open their spaces up seems a great idea to me, and could really help with the parking burden placed since the B of A and old Faletti lots went away.

Panhandle lady

Thu, 24 May 2007 15:20:59 -0800

Yeah, the DMV was open for years for parking in the evenings and on weekends. It really helped alleviate the parking problem for those of us that live in the hood. They put up the yellow gates to keep that from happening because in order to be able to have vehicles towed from the DMV a CHP officer must ticket and call it in. DMV being state property and all. That was I suppose a problem for them to do or whatever so the solution was to put up gates. Why is reopening the parking a bad thing? I do think they should put in Zip cars even if you can get them 2 blocks away.

h. brown

Thu, 24 May 2007 15:20:26 -0800

Parkers, When Willie was mayor, he pulled a few strings and got the DMV lot opened Sundays strictly for the use of a church down the street. Pissed the neighbors off plenty. But then, they were mostly late-sleeping heathens. h.

MattyMatt

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:24:15 -0800

At Diviz and Fell, there are Zipcar spots, but no City Carshare.

andrew

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:23:42 -0800

They could also rent the spaces to a commecial outfit like Zipcar or Flexcar if they don't want to give them away free to CCS.

J

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:17:05 -0800

Traffic is kind of slow now anyways, at least on Broderick, where Broderick Place customer parking access is located. Having fee-for-parking would eliminate the straglers that don't move their wheels by the a.m. Also, that lot used to be (unofficially, I think) open to night and weekend parking about 6 years back, until they put the gates up. No, I don't think the parking should be subsidized, unless the merchants want to valet park there. Too hard to control. If I'm not mistaken, aren't there carshare spots at the gas station on the corner of Fell & Divis?

MattyMatt

Thu, 24 May 2007 13:43:36 -0800

Skeptical that it wouldn't bring in more cars and slow down transit.

Hank Essay

Thu, 24 May 2007 12:53:35 -0800

Thank god. This is a terrific idea..Why the hell were you skeptical about this, Matty Matt? Skeptical that it would ever happen? That was the only thing I was skeptical about? This is the best thing to happen in SF since I don't know what....Maybe the good folks at NoPa and the Independent could help subsidize parking in some way....What say you??