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Even for public goods, there should be some way of fairly allocating them. The randomness of driving around looking for parking is not a good way in 2014. It wo
by gfodor 12y ago
Even for public goods, there should be some way of fairly allocating them. The randomness of driving around looking for parking is not a good way in 2014. It would be nice if some subset of spots used an automated system where people paid with their time, where drivers could sit in a queue to be notified when a spot frees up, and the spot becomes reserved for a short period until they park in it. (You snooze, you lose.)
- silencio 12y agoSF had a pilot program to (among other things) install per-spot sensors in around 8k metered spaces in congested areas. There was a companion iOS/Android app that could direct you to the nearest sensor-enabled available street parking spot. I used it a couple times, it was great. Sadly it doesn't work right now because the program ended, but while it existed, realtime data was even accessible to third party developers. The potential was huge. http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/the-sensors/ http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/the-sensors/ If someone wants to disrupt something, it should be by helping the SFMTA to bring sensors back along with upgrading the rest of the city's meters to the smart, credit card accepting, remote pay enabled, pricing-based-on-demand system that only some of the meters use.