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San Francisco having a functional public transit system is news to me.

codazoda 5y ago
SF seemed like a walkable city when I visited. I walked from my hotel to Fishermans Warf and back (back is a LOT of up hill). But I think at least parts of it are pretty walkable.
- asdff 5y ago
  Locally walkable and being able to get somewhere within ten miles as the crow flies in a reasonable amount of time are two entirely different things
lastofthemojito 5y ago
But at the same time San Francisco is indeed a nightmare to park in. I had the worst rental car luck of my life in San Francisco - and no, I didn't really want to have a car in SF, but I was taking a road trip up from LA, then San Luis Obispo, through Big Sur, to SF and then onwards to wine country. We stayed a couple of nights with a friend in SF, and on the first night I hunted for what felt like an hour to find a street parking space, and I FINALLY found an open spot that didn't have any signs for parking restrictions. The next day we went to get the car and it was gone. There was red paint and "NO PARKING" on the curb that I missed in the dark, so the car was towed to a city impound. In addition to a parking ticket, there was a nasty note on the windshield about how I was a bad person for parking in front of a physical therapy facility and infirm people rely on that spot to be dropped off, etc. Something like $500 later, I retrieved the rental car and got lucky this time with a legal spot right in front of my friend's house. Shortly thereafter, I heard a crash out front and thought "wouldn't it be funny if that was our car?". It was. An elderly gentleman plowed into it. But apparently not before parking enforcement had visited again - there was another ticket on the windshield, apparently this time I hadn't properly curbed my wheels on the gently sloped street. So yeah, in San Francisco I might take the flawed public transit, or Uber/Lyft, or scooters, or walking, or crawling or anything else over bringing a car into the city.
- yupper32 5y ago
  Can't really help you with parking in the red. That's on you, and something to look for parking anywhere in the country. Curbing your tires is definitely something an out of towner wouldn't know, so I feel you on that. It has a decent reasoning, at least. The real problem with public transit is that there are a bunch of routes that need multiple transfers and take 3x as long as by car (with none of the reliability). Most places will have parking within 2-3 blocks or garages, but yeah it's tough.
  - Scoundreller 5y ago
    Red is a poor choice for something that needs to be seen day or night. Pretty much the worst colour next to black (which is technically not a colour).
    - yupper32 5y ago
      What color would be better? Green seems like a poor choice when telling someone not to park there.. Yellow is already taken (loading zone). Blue is already taken (handicap). Orange is close to yellow, and is that even better in the dark? Signs for every single red zone is overkill (there are red zones on the edge of garages for example).

SF seemed like a walkable city when I visited. I walked from my hotel to Fishermans Warf and back (back is a LOT of up hill). But I think at least parts of it are pretty walkable.

asdff 5y ago
Locally walkable and being able to get somewhere within ten miles as the crow flies in a reasonable amount of time are two entirely different things

lastofthemojito 5y ago

But at the same time San Francisco is indeed a nightmare to park in. I had the worst rental car luck of my life in San Francisco - and no, I didn't really want to have a car in SF, but I was taking a road trip up from LA, then San Luis Obispo, through Big Sur, to SF and then onwards to wine country. We stayed a couple of nights with a friend in SF, and on the first night I hunted for what felt like an hour to find a street parking space, and I FINALLY found an open spot that didn't have any signs for parking restrictions. The next day we went to get the car and it was gone. There was red paint and "NO PARKING" on the curb that I missed in the dark, so the car was towed to a city impound. In addition to a parking ticket, there was a nasty note on the windshield about how I was a bad person for parking in front of a physical therapy facility and infirm people rely on that spot to be dropped off, etc. Something like $500 later, I retrieved the rental car and got lucky this time with a legal spot right in front of my friend's house. Shortly thereafter, I heard a crash out front and thought "wouldn't it be funny if that was our car?". It was. An elderly gentleman plowed into it. But apparently not before parking enforcement had visited again - there was another ticket on the windshield, apparently this time I hadn't properly curbed my wheels on the gently sloped street. So yeah, in San Francisco I might take the flawed public transit, or Uber/Lyft, or scooters, or walking, or crawling or anything else over bringing a car into the city.

yupper32 5y ago
Can't really help you with parking in the red. That's on you, and something to look for parking anywhere in the country. Curbing your tires is definitely something an out of towner wouldn't know, so I feel you on that. It has a decent reasoning, at least. The real problem with public transit is that there are a bunch of routes that need multiple transfers and take 3x as long as by car (with none of the reliability). Most places will have parking within 2-3 blocks or garages, but yeah it's tough.
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  Red is a poor choice for something that needs to be seen day or night. Pretty much the worst colour next to black (which is technically not a colour).
  - yupper32 5y ago
    What color would be better? Green seems like a poor choice when telling someone not to park there.. Yellow is already taken (loading zone). Blue is already taken (handicap). Orange is close to yellow, and is that even better in the dark? Signs for every single red zone is overkill (there are red zones on the edge of garages for example).