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SFpark logo: Circle less. Live more.How SFpark Works

SFpark focuses on creating more availability within the existing parking supply. Its main strategies are:

  • Make parking more convenient by offering new payment options and longer time limits
  • Increase parking availability by providing more information to direct drivers to available spaces
  • Adjust prices to redistribute parking demand, by either shifting parkers to blocks, lots, or garages where spaces are available or encouraging people to park at off-peak times

These strategies work together to reduce the frustration of parking in San Francisco.

Program Pilot Areas

SFpark will have a pre-pilot phase beginning May 2009 along the Embarcadero. The citywide launch of SFpark pilot projects will be in fall 2009 when SFMTA begins to implement SFpark in the following neighborhoods; the participating SFMTA-managed garages are listed as well:

Facts About SFpark

  • 320,000: Estimated on-street parking spaces in San Francisco
  • 25,000: Total metered parking spaces in San Francisco
  • 6,000: On-street metered parking spaces that are part of SFpark pilot areas
  • 12,250: Parking garage spaces in all fourteen SFMTA-owned garages and lots that are part of SFpark pilot areas
  • 1 in 10: Goal of SFpark for available spaces per block in pilot areas most of the time
  • $0.50: Maximum amount per hour parking prices can go up or down when they are adjusted
  • $0.25 - $6.00: Price range per hour of on-street parking spaces and SFMTA-managed parking lots
  • $1.00 - $10.00: Price range per hour for SFMTA-managed garages
  • $24.75 million: Cost of implementing the SFpark pilot: 80 percent is federally funded via the Department of Transportation’s Federal Urban Partnership Program.

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