Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about San Francisco

Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 4: Jay Primus and Rina Cutler

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 19, 2012 | No Comments

This is the fourth part in Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Read the earlier profiles in part one, part two, and part three. Jay Primus Manager, SFMTA’s SFPark program In your average city, parking policy is pretty rigid: […]

Nightmare on Oak Street: Couple Harassed While Biking, Blamed By SFPD

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 14, 2012 | No Comments

[Editor’s note: We had to share this story out of Streetsblog SF with our New York readers. As badly as NYPD bungles crash investigations, they hardly have a monopoly on mishandling traffic cases.] On their ride home from a Valentine’s Day dinner, Ian Long and Johanna Weaver were harassed by an angry driver and allegedly […]

SFPark Manager: Too Early to Evaluate Groundbreaking Parking Program

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 16, 2011 | No Comments

It’s too soon in the development of SFPark to draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of demand-responsive pricing on parking habits, says the SFMTA’s Jay Primus, who manages the SFPark program. Primus got in touch yesterday when the Streetsblog Network highlighted a blog post from Michael Perkins at Greater Greater Washington which claimed that the results of the […]

NYC DOT to Roll Out Smart Parking Tech in 2012

By Noah Kazis | Nov 7, 2011 | 11 Comments

New York City is moving forward with plans to use sensors to improve parking management, along the lines of San Francisco’s pioneering SFPark system. The program will be unveiled next year, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced at a conference on transportation and technology held last Friday at Columbia University. For now, DOT is only dropping […]

SFPark, Putting Shoup’s Ideas to the Test, Launches to Much Political Support

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 22, 2011 | No Comments

San Francisco launched the world’s most ambitious and innovative parking project yesterday, a federally-funded trial that could revolutionize the way cities manage the public supply of parking. SFPark promises to make it easier for motorists to find spaces in busy commercial districts, while reducing congestion, speeding transit, increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, and improving […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: The Right Price for Parking

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 19, 2011 | No Comments

You might be shocked at how much traffic consists of drivers who have already arrived at their destination but find themselves cruising the streets, searching for an open parking spot. In some city neighborhoods, cruising makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traffic slows down buses, endangers cyclists and […]

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