New Research! I analyzed 19M SFMTA parking tickets & 300K illegal parking complaints to see what the city is prioritizing.
Only 5% of all tickets are for violations that affect public safety while 100s of repeat offenders are driving around with impunity.🧵
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/parking-tickets-18106566.php
SFMTA issues ~3K parking tickets a day. 70% of those are for street sweeping & expired meters to generate passive revenue.
Only 5% of all citations are for violations that affect public safety like blocking a sidewalk, bike lane, bus lane, accessibility space or red safety zone.
Meanwhile SF residents submit ~250 illegal parking complaints a day of which only 1 in 4 result in a citation.
That might be because SFMTA’s average response time to these complaints is currently OVER 3 HOURS. In 2022 it was OVER 4 HOURS which is completely unacceptable.
Despite an April 2022 redesign, SF311 continues to be a UX disaster & prioritizes the inconvenience of vehicle owners over the needs of people biking, walking & taking transit across SF. You can't even report a blocked accessible space & blocked bike lanes violations are ignored.
One thing the SFMTA loves are repeat offenders.
Instead of analyzing driver behavior & installing infrastructure that makes it impossible to illegally park in known hot spots the SFMTA just sits back & collects the fines.
34 vehicles have over 1,000 parking tickets! 🤯
On weekends parking enforcement falls off a cliff along our retail corridors.
SFMTA should be enforcing parking during the busiest times of the day, on known hot spots like Valencia & Polk.
Instead they’re using low-fidelity heat maps to guide their enforcement strategy like it's 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEpgFy6l1yA&t=8230s
I’ve been tracking SFMTA illegal parking data for 4 years starting with my https://safelanes.org project in 2019. I’ve made multiple attempts to help SFMTA analyze its data, all of which have been ignored.
They must start making an effort to people like myself who are ready & willing to help.
If you’re tired of cars on sidewalks, in bike lanes, bus stops, accessibility spaces & safety zones, please take 2 seconds to send an email right now demanding SFMTA develop a data-driven enforcement strategy that prioritizes public safety over revenue.
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https://tinyurl.com/sfmta-parking-enforcement
This project took hundreds of hours to sanitize, organize, analyze and visualize the data.
Thank you to everyone who supported it! ♥️
If you value data-driven advocacy & government accountability, please support our work. 🙏
https://transpomaps.org/fund-map
https://transpomaps.org/san-francisco/ca/illegal-parking
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Luis Villa
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