Rather than adjust pricing so that it's "the lowest price with 2 spots available per block", price should be set at "the highest price that still gets occupied 50%" or something along those lines.

'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.'

No, there are just too many cars and people need to reduce their car use, period! I say that even more easily that, myself, before I became an ecologist and very critical on the car-system, used to borrow my mom's car sometimes when I had to work in "remote" places of the city. One day, it took me 45 minutes before I found a parking space. Forty-Five Fucking minutes. It drove me insane. That day I realized it was totally ridiculous and chose to get a proper, clean, well-working bike and use public transportation. That day I (almost) stopped driving. That day I became carfree. That day I became an anti-car activist.

So let's freaking reduce parking space and -please- don't make it more convenient.

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As long as parking is free or dirt cheap, the alternatives don't matter. Folks will spend an inordinate amount of time to take advantage of a free resource over a $2 alternative (the MTA).

Then there are the drivers forced to move their cars for alternate side street cleaning. I used to drive around the UES for up to an hour after work, twice a week, just to move my car to legal spot for the next couple days. I'm sure much of the side street traffic is doing the same on those days.

I think this program will encourage driving since now people know they can count on a space to park rather than having to drive around for blocks and blocks looking for parking. And sure, it costs a little more, but I think most people in SF have enough money that paying a little extra won't discourage them. Or at least it certainly won't offset the convenience of having guaranteed parking.

If 40% (or whatever) of drivers are looking for parking, my response would be: why the hell aren't we giving them alternatives to driving? That is the real question we are avoiding with this whole program: why are people even needing to drive in the first place.

I just feel like we keep putting money into car infrastructure (and such a ridiculously high tech solution, nonetheless) when we should be putting that money into improving public transit, bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure, and the livability of our cities. This seems like a backwards way to do what we really want to do.

Given this consumption of space relative to pedestrians or bicycles, I'd say that it's well past time to start making automobilists pay for the space their cars consume when idle…(?)

I'd day at least 20-30% of my neighborhood's streets are filled with NC, VA, FL, PA and NJ plates. These aren't visitors.

Other than the simple break of the law (and not paying the registration and road taxes to the appropriate state) -- I'm sure their insurance companies... if they have insurance... would consider this insurance fraud and not pay a claim if they discovered they have been falsifying their primary residence.