The preferential residential parking system was established in 1976 to preserve neighborhood living within a major urban center. It is designed to promote the safety, health and welfare of all San Francisco residents by reducing unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel, noise and pollution, and by promoting improvements in air quality, convenience and attractiveness of urban residential living, and increased use of public mass transit. The program’s main goal is to provide more parking spaces for residents by discouraging long-term parking by people who do not live in the area.
So sayeth the Municipal Transportation Agency.
The street on which the Spawn's day care is situated just became 2-hour parking, except for residents with area "O" permits. Previously, I had been driving a couple of miles from our apartment to the day care, parking on that block, dropping off the Spawn, and then walking a couple of blocks to the L-Taraval stop, which I would take in to work. In the evening, reverse.
Since I am no longer permitted to park on this block for the workday, and it would take about an hour and at least one transfer just to get the Spawn from our apartment to her day care by transit (and another half hour to get myself to work), I can only infer that the MTA would prefer that I drive to the day care, drop off the Spawn, and then drive into downtown, pay $18/day or $200/mo for parking and add to downtown congestion, and then drive home again in rush hour in the evening.
How does this meet their stated goal?
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