Showing posts with label sunday parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunday parking. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2016

SFMTA Immediately Removes Small Plastic Posts to Make Room for Double Parking

The SFMTA is "required" to remove these posts (seen behind the SFMTA's massive truck blocking the bike lane) so they can make room for everyday double parking.
image via SFMTrA
There's a major problem on the streets of San Francisco these days and the SFMTA is working diligently to fix it.  No, I'm not talking about the countless deaths and injuries that happened on our streets.   It's small plastic posts that the rogue group called SFMTrA have installed all over the city.

Illegal median parking on Valencia street that the SFMTA valiantly ignores every week.
 Image found here
The SFMTA, which recently enshrined free double parking on Sundays despite countless organizations and neighborhoods saying they didn't want it, removed the plastic posts at an unprecedented speed.  They responded to this incredibly dangerous activity by saying they are "required" to remove the little posts from the streets.  They went on to say, "We also need to make sure that there's plenty of room for the double parking that occurs on Valencia Street on a daily basis.  If we don't stop this kind of behavior, what's next, they'll block illegal Sunday median parking on Valencia & Dolores, too?"  

SFMTA righting the wrongs of of the SFMTrA so Valencia street is back to its natural state.
image found here
The SFMTA is hopeful that they've removed the small posts so they'll be filled with incredibly safe daily double and median parking.  A SFMTA representative said, "As a direct arm of our wimpy leaders, we want to ensure voting motorists aren't denied the promise given to them in car commercials." 

Flex posts are a menace to the streets of San Francisco.  Median parking on the red zones of Dolores Street is ~perfectly safe~
image found here

Friday, July 11, 2014

SF Motorists Rejoice While Driving Around Longer, Angrier, For FREE SUNDAY PARKING!

The motorists of San Francisco have a lot more to rejoice about on Sundays, because they'll now be able to drive around longer looking for FREE parking.  People who find parking can now leave their car parked all day as well without ever having to move it. What could possibly go wrong!?

Great news!  You can now circle around downtown SF for free parking on Sundays!
image found here
Gloria Sanderson exclaims, "It took me over 20 minutes to find parking, but I saved a couple of bucks that I would have normally spent on transit, or treating myself to an ice cream after a bike ride into downtown.  There's no way I'm giving up this spot all day after what I went through to earn it."

Why just pay for parking when you can circle around for 10 minutes and maybe find  free parking?
Image found here.
Mayor Lee's Task force came up with the idea of Sunday metering to help with congestion and also make other forms of transportation more palatable.  It would also shore up more money for the underfunded SFMTA, which needs at least 3 billion dollars to upgrade the aging infrastructure.  But then Mayor Lee pushed to remove Sunday parking, for, reasons...  He then sent a press release congratulating himself on repealing the idea that he and his team came up in the first place.  Great Job Lee!

Meanwhile, Muni will increase 25 cents to 2.25, even on Sundays.  But don't worry, parking will remain FREE to anyone who can find it!
Waiting around for free stuff always is a good idea.
image found here.