Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Congestion Parking in San Francisco



The Bay Area will receive $87 million in federal funds for the replacement of Doyle Drive and other regional transportation projects as part of a program to introduce congestion pricing - controlling traffic by raising and lowering tolls and parking rates - around the country. The Bay Area's program will use high-tech parking meters that will charge rates that rise and fall with demand.

SF GATE

This will be the first big experiment in San Francisco with the theories of parking guru Donald Shoup. Under this plan, curbside parking is based on fair market prices. Meter revenues finance added public services like transit and streetscape improvements. The Economist explains.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So the proposal quickly attracted opposition? These high-tech parking meters will just make things worse in some instance in my opinion.