Taraval Street photos
Taraval Street & 48th Avenue
Before (2011):
After (2023):
Greenery put in (which is nice) to replace parking. Not practical, however.
Taraval Street & 47th Avenue
Before (2011):
After (2023):
You might have to use both fingers to blow up this photos to see the changes if you are on a cell phone, but you can see greenery put in to replace parking.
Embarcadero Photos
Embarcadero & Folsom Street
Before (2014):
After (2023):
Fisherman’s Wharf Photos
Jefferson Street & Powell Street
Before (2009):
After (2023):
Sidewalk widened on the left to remove parking.
Before (2009):
After (2023):
Sidewalk widened on the left to remove parking.
Jefferson Street & Mason Street
Before (2009):
After (2023):
Sidewalk widened on the right to remove parking.
Jefferson Street & Mason Street
Before (2009):
After (2023):
Sidewalk widened on the left to remove parking.
Van Ness Avenue photos
Van Ness Avenue & Lombard Street
Before (2009):
Three car lanes on the right, plus parking further up (on the right).
After (2023):
Now we only have two car lanes on the right instead of three, and all parking on the right side (on the entire stretch) is now gone.
After the parking was removed, we noticed these two businesses went out of business. Do you know the owners? Please have them contact us at SFneedsParking@gmail.com so we can interview them about this and get the correct info.
Van Ness Avenue & Chestnut Street
Before (2009):
Three car lanes here on the right-hand-side of the street for easy traffic flow.
After (2023):
Car lanes now reduced from three to two, which slows down the flow/speed of travel.
Van Ness Avenue & Greenwich Street
Before (2016):
After (2023):
Now we are down to two car lanes when a bus only goes by once every 5-10 minutes in the red lane. =(
Taraval Street Photos
17th Avenue & Taraval Street
Before (2011):
Two car lanes on both sides of the street and parking on both sides of the street. This street has businesses on both sides. Some large, some small ! They all need their customers to park close.
After (2023):
It might be hard to see in this shot, but all parking has been removed on the left-hand-side of the street. Where there was once a strip off parking, now there is just a car lane.
This is **also** 17th Avenue & Taraval Street, but I took a screenshot of the shops. As soon as the parking was removed on this block, a restaurant, a laundromat, a liquor store, a bakery, and a hair cut place all went out of business. Can the owners of those businesses please email me at SFneedsParking@gmail.com so that I can get more details on what happened to your businesses?
16th Street photos
16th Street & 3rd Street
No “before and after” set of photos because this photo is here to let you now that this street was built without parking on either side.
The Chase Center
There is no parking (except for parking garages) surrounding The Chase Center except for the street you see on the (very) right of the above photo. There is plenty of room for street parking right outside The Chase Center though. Bicycle lanes surround it instead.
Folsom Street & 4th Street
Before (2011):
There is parking in the background on the entire side of the street.
After (2023):
16th Street & Owens Street
Parking now taken out.
Current (2023) photo of a super-long bus stop. Bus stops do not have to be this long because the SFMTA could have a platform (wide enough for wheelchair users) that comes out from the curb, and be the same height as the curb, that lines up with the front door of the bus, and that is how people could get on and off the buses from the sidewalk. These long areas currently reserved for bus stops are not necessary, but we see them all over the City and they take out a lot of potential parking stops.
Before (2009):
Before building construction. Parking on the left side of the street, at least.
After (2023):
After construction, parking does not exist on either side of the street.
16th Street & 7th Street
Before (2009):
After (2023):
You will have to use two fingers to blow up the photo here, but you will see (if you blow up the photo) where I drew the four double pink lines, which show where parking has been removed now. Cars on the left-hand-side of the photo behind the pink lines (that look like they are parked) are actually driving, just FYI.
16th Street & Daggett Street
Before (2011):
Parking on both sides of the street before construction.
After (2023):
Parking removed on the right-hand-side of the street after construction.
16th Street & Connecticut Street
Before (2011):
After (2023):
Parking taken out on the right-hand-side. The yellow arrows points to a MUNI platform that is not necessary and is technically a waste of our tax dollars. MUNI can pick folks up who wait on the sidewalk; we do not need a platform in the middle of the street (plus the subsequent removal of parking to the right of the platform — which should be even more reason to not build these).
Close-up of the unnecessary MUNI platform.
16th Street & Wisconsin Street
Before (2011):
After (2023):
Parking removal on the right, and the right-most car lane has been turned into a MUNI-&-taxi-only lane, so cars now can only drive in one lane — instead of two. On the left, if you blow up this photo, you see a pointless MUNI platform (again, bus passengers can be picked up & dropped off on the sidewalk; a platform is unnecessary and takes out parking).
16th Street & Carolina Street
Before (2011):
Street not well-maintained, but, parking on both sides of the street.
After (2023):
Half the parking on the left-hand-side of the street has been turned from perpendicular parking to parallel, which means that about half the parking was removed from the left-hand-side of the street.
Market Street photos
Market Street & Steuart Street
Before (2009):
After (2023):
A bicycle rental station has now replaced parking at the Embarcadero Farmers Market. Vendors cannot unload there anymore.
This is also Market Street & Steuart, but on the right-hand-side, you see an extremely long bus stop. That bus stop is a place where cars cannot drive. So, you may as well turn that bus stop into parking spaces instead. You can still have the bus stop there, but you could make the bus pick-up/drop-off area not take up so much room. All you need is a small platform that comes out from the sidewalk (same height as the sidewalk) that is wide enough to accommodate wheelchair users and as long as it lines up with the front door of the bus, that is all you need to get people on and off the bus.
This is still Market Street & Steuart, but here on the left-hand-side, you have an area where no one is allowed to drive or park, so you may as well allow parking there!
Market Street & Spear Street
The sidewalks are so wide on both sides of the street on many parts of Market Street relative to how many people walk on these sidewalks, so we may as well narrow the sidewalks (and we would STILL even then have wide sidewalks; these sidewalks are just so wide) to fit parking on both sides of the street. Market Street is SF’s main street, with lots of businesses (or at least should have lots of businesses and activity once this area of the City revives again) and we should have easy access to these streets.
Market Street & Drumm Street
Again, our sidewalks on Market Street are SUPER wide, so taking out a little space from them to get parking on both sides of the street is the practical thing to do.
Drumm Street photos
Before (2009):
There used to be parking on both sides of the street (for motorcycles AND cars).
After (2023):
Parking removed from the right-hand-side of the street to put in an INCREDIBLY long (and unnecessarily-long) bus stop, that takes up the entire side of the street.
Beale Street photos
Incredibly long bus stop that is unnecessarily long and could be mostly parking spaces instead, except for a (much) smaller loading & unloading platform for passengers to of course get on & off the bus.
Beale Street & Market Street:
Before (2009):
After (2023):
All parking gone from the left-hand-side of the street for a long stretch.
Another view of the parking that has been stripped off the left-hand-side of the street.