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
SF News SFMTA Paints Red Zone Around Woman's Car And Then Tickets Her Parking in San Francisco is of course a tricky beast. Sometimes it feels like the rules change around you — what was once a 72-hour zone now needs a neighborhood sticker, for example. Checking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Bro Figures Out Hack To Dodge Parking Tickets, Meter Maids Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. One of Friday night's vegan protesters at Chez Panisse
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Drivers Abusing Disabled-Parking Placards Professional scold Stanley Roberts was back at it again this week, this time around directing his camera and reprobation toward those abusing the system of disabled-parking placards that actual disabled individuals depend on
SF News Neighbors Put Parking Over Housing In Fight Against 6-Story Mission Development The latest housing development to incur the wrath of neighbors is proposed for Cesar Chavez near Guerrero Street. Mission Local reports that the six-story building would replace what is now a one-story office
SF News SFMTA Approves Sunday Double-Parking Pilot Program It seems that last week's prediction was correct, as the SFMTA Board of Directors today approved the creation of a pilot program to allow Sunday double-parking on Dolores Street. Jerold Chinn, the transportation
SF News SFMTA 'Leans Toward' Formalizing Illegal Sunday Double-Parking For Churchgoers The SFMTA is set to decide on Tuesday whether or not to formalize the currently illegal practice of churchgoers every Sunday turning the Mission's Dolores Street into a parking lot. The Examiner reports
SF News [Update] New PayByPhone App To Let Drivers Reserve Spaces In Advance Correction: This article incorrectly indicated that PayByPhone would operate its reservations at some metered street spaces. This is not so, the company has informed SFist: "PayByPhone wants to clarify that it plans to
SF News SF Parking Meters Get Rate Adjustment: Some Go Up, Others Go Down As of yesterday, you may be paying less to park in San Francisco. Or more! Or the same amount as you were before. Confused? Don't be, it's all part of the San Francisco
SF News Report: It Costs $29K To Build One On-Street Parking Spot In SF Parking in SF is an expensive hassle — we all know this. But a new report out of UCLA picked up by Curbed suggests that the financial burden manifests in ways other than the
SF News [Update] Parking Over Pedestrians: Business Balks At L-Taraval Safety Plan Plans to improve pedestrian safety on an injury-prone stretch of San Francisco streets were threatened this week, as Supervisor Katy Tang met with business interests claiming that the loss of a few parking
SF News Muni Proposes Tiered Pricing System That Penalizes Cash With 25-Cent Surcharge Yesterday evening the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency adopted a new budget that, if approved by the Board of Supervisors, will penalize commuters who purchase tickets the old fashioned way with good ol'
SF News Toll Plaza Gridlocked As Golden Gate Bridge Parking Lot Closures Backfire A plan to thwart backups on the Golden Gate Bridge backfired this weekend, as a closure of the bridge's two parking lots ended up reportedly causing even more gridlock than before. As reported
SF News Parking Over Pedestrians: Commitment To Vision Zero Questioned As Traffic Deaths Spike San Francisco's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024, known as Vision Zero, is this year off to a tragic start. Adopted in 2014, the two-year-old initiative seeks to educate the public on
SF News Forget About Parking Near The Golden Gate Bridge This Weekend If you want to enjoy the views from the Golden Gate Bridge this weekend, you'd better hop on the bus, as officials say that no private vehicles will be allowed to park in
SF News San Francisco Owes Steve Jobs $174 If you're anything like deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs (and you just might be), then the City and County of San Francisco owes you some money. The SFMTA posted a list of 200,
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Is Saving Parking Spaces By Standing In Them Kosher In The 415? Dear Rain, I've lived a couple places before I moved to SF, but nowhere else have I seen people "save" parking spaces the way they do here. I'm talking about how someone will
SF News Video: San Francisco Double-Parkers Shamed (But Not Ticketed) I have often said that any budget deficits San Francisco might be suffering could be solved by sending SFTMA's transit enforcers to specific areas and ticketing every single stinkin' double-parker that they see.
SF News Study Suggests You Should Just Park Your Car In Noe Valley A new study looking at the availability of parking by neighborhood tells us a lot of what we already know about San Francisco — parking is terrible! The study's intended purpose is to inform
SF News Zuckerberg Neighbor Wages War Over Liberty Hill Parking Spots At least one of Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco neighbors is not having it with the boy-billionaire, and has started a campaign to get SFMTA involved. The neighbor, who apparently lives near the Facebook
SF News SFMTA Forgets They Need To Direct Traffic, Ups SF Taxpayers' Super Bowl Bill Remember how we told you that San Francisco was expected to spend about $4 million of taxpayer money on the Super Bowl? Well, scratch that figure! As it turns out, the good old
SF News SFMTA May Extend Illegal Church Parking To All, Proving We All Worship The Gods Of Parking The survey results are in, and the views of neighbors and business owners have been neatly tallied. And now, in classic San Francisco style, it's time to dismiss all of that and come
SF News No, Most Mission Residents Are Not OK With Median Parking On Sunday Last month the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency launched a survey with the goal of determining how San Franciscans feel about illegal double parking on Dolores and Guerrero Streets by churchgoers (and whoever
Arts & Entertainment How Would You Respond To This Odd Parking Request? A photo posted by ~ Rico Highroller (@ricohighroller) on Nov 20, 2015 at 5:36pm PST We all hold certain San Francisco truths to be self-evident: Rent in SF is expensive, and street parking
SF News SFMTA Wants To Talk About Illegal Church Double Parking On Sundays Sundays in San Francisco bring with them a familiar scene: hundreds of cars, illegally double parked, lining the streets for blocks surrounding prominent churches. As many churchgoers drive to their religious services, this
