SF News It Might Soon Cost You $3 an Hour to Park In Golden Gate Park If you thought car-free JFK Drive was controversial, wait til you see the next dispute coming down the promenade, as free parking might soon be eliminated in Golden Gate Park to chip away at the city’s budget deficit.
SF News SFMTA Reverses, Backs Off From Issuing Tickets for 'Daylighting' Parking Violations A plan to begin issuing $40 tickets for parking along unmarked curbs due to a crosswalk "daylighting" law has been nixed, with the SFMTA acknowledging that it might be unfair to force drivers to pull out their own tape measures.
SF News SFMTA Has Issued at Least Two Wrongful Tickets to People Parked in the Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs in the Richmond Some renegade fake “no parking” curbs in the Richmond District seem designed to fool motorists into thinking they can’t park in these legal spots. They’ve apparently fooled some ticket agents too, as SFMTA has issued a couple of tickets they’ve had to rescind.
SF News Parking Vigilante Paints Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs In Richmond District as Daylighting Laws Kick In As the new daylighting laws preventing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk are in effect, SFMTA has not painted all of the necessary curbs red. So some joker went and painted some counterfeit red “no parking” curbs, but got the dimensions completely wrong.
SF News SF to Start Enforcing New ‘Daylighting’ Parking Law for Parking Within 20 Feet of a Crosswalk You’ll soon be looking at a $40 citation for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, as new state law is kicking in requiring 20 feet of “daylight” between parked cars and crosswalks, though they won’t be handing out the fines until January 1, 2025.
SF News Beware Phony QR Code Scam Popping Up on SF Parking Meters Some fairly sophisticated scam artists have been slapping QR-code "Pay by Phone" stickers on SF parking meters, and the SFMTA just caught on last week.
SF News New California Parking Law Could Trip Up Car Owners In SF If They're Not Paying Attention A new law that took effect on January 1 in California is going to mean that more feet of curb space in San Francisco is likely to turn red in the coming year — and even if it isn't painted red, drivers parking their cars will be expected to respect a 20-foot buffer zone near every crosswalk.
SF News Whoa! You’ll Have to Pay SF Parking Meters ‘Til 10 p.m., Starting In July The SFMTA is literally trying to nickel-and-dime its way out of a $130 million deficit, as drivers will have to feed the meters at SF parking spaces until 10 p.m., starting in July in some neighborhoods, and free Sunday parking will be a thing of the past.
SF News A San Francisco Parking Spot Is On Sale In South Beach For $90,000 SF’s latest cost-of-living outrage comes in the form of a standard parking space one block from Oracle Park, as a parking space that currently costs $300 a month has had its listing jacked up to $90,000 for permanent ownership of the space.
SF News SF Resumed Peak-Hour Towing Enforcement Today Another local law that was temporarily tossed out during COVID went back into effect Monday, and your car could now again be towed if parked in restricted peak-hour areas.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Parking Permit Enforcement Resumes In SF Those permit stickers once again mean something for people parking in SF; people can have gym workouts, massages, and haircuts indoors agains starting today; and the 49ers lost to the Cardinals during their smoky season opener.
SF News City of Oakland To Enforce Parking Meters, Regulations Starting July 6 One windfall of the pandemic has been unmetered, ticket-free street parking in many Bay Area cities. But now, just like in San Francisco — where street sweeping ticketing will resume on June 15 — the City of Oakland is set to start enforcing certain parking regulations soon.
SF News SF Parking Meters May Start Charging on Evenings and Sundays Surge pricing for all cars, plus paid meters for Sunday and nighttime parking could be coming, as City Hall looks for ways to fight gridlock and discourage driving in general.
SF News A Parking Spot In South Beach Is Selling For $100K Currently, the median price for a house in the United States sits at $200,000. Half that amount, however, could secure you a conveniently located, covered parking spot in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood.
SF News Where In SF Are You Most Likely To Get A Parking Ticket? According to numbers crunched by a local parking app, drivers in the Financial District, in the Civic Center area, and in the Inner Richmond and North Beach are most likely to get ticketed
SF News Photo Of Driver Who Allegedly Crushed Homeless Person's Tent For SF Parking Space Goes Viral A homeless person's tent was in a parking space, which this driver ran over, then parked on. pic.twitter.com/FyLLTsGeri— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) September 14, 2017 SF Examiner reporter Joe Fitzgerald
SF News Illegal Downtown Parker Attacks Woman Who Asks Him To Move A man turned a parking misstep into what police describe as an "attempted robbery" Wednesday, when he attacked a woman who tried to get him to depart a space he improperly occupied. Police
SF News Do 'No Parking' Signs For Street Cleaning Still Apply After The Street Cleaner Is Gone? There's a parking miscalculation every San Franciscan with a vehicle eventually makes: leaving your car in a street cleaning zone during the day and hours street sweepers approach. But every thorn has its
SF News Woman Killed in Lower Haight Parking Crash A Friday night parking crash has left one woman dead, according to Hoodline, after the victim neglected to put her transmission into park when parking and was run over by the vehicle. Bay
SF News Report: San Franciscans Spend 83 Hours Per Year Looking For Parking San Franciscans have plenty to bitch, moan, and complain about when it comes to parking in our traffic-congested Bay Area, what with rampant abuse of disabled placards, bizarrely inconsistent enforcement, and those infernal
SF News Dozens Of Cars Towed Along Dolores Street Median After Violating 6PM Cutoff Strict enforcement of new Dolores Street median parking rules results in several cars towed https://t.co/hYthkXz7Tm pic.twitter.com/E3gN7MyppG— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 30, 2017 Those who commute from elsewhere
SF News Yes, Most Disabled Placards From The CA DMV Were Probably Issued On Bogus Pretenses The California State Auditor has taken on the cause of those disabled placards issued by the DMV, the validity of which many a TV news magazine and local news broadcast have questioned over
SF News Video: SF Resident Raps About Angled Parking At SFMTA Board Meeting Man delivers "angled parking rap" at @sfmta_muni today#SFMuni #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/jnks81sgct— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) March 7, 2017 If you've lived here more than a minute and/or attended
SF News Officially Legal Dolores Street Median Parking Pilot Program Starts Next Month Publicly debated now for several years and privately griped about for decades, the practice of weekend double-parking along the median on Dolores Street will now, for the first time ever, be officially sanctioned
SF News Holidays In SF Means Parking Given, Other Parking Taken Away Update 12/23: Basically everything I wrote in this post regarding Muni's parking enforcement over the holidays was wrong. I'm sorry about that — I took the information exactly as it appeared on Muni's
