Honestly, I don't think there is any street parking price that would scare them away, especially since the only limitation is the space constraint and not the c

Honestly, I don't think there is any street parking price that would scare them away, especially since the only limitation is the space constraint and not the contents of car driver wallets. There will always be someone that's willing to pay for a slightly better spot, and even if SF sets meters to $15-20/hr some areas are still going to stay congested. All I can really hope is that the program can expand and adjust prices so it's just a little bit less congested while not being outrageously priced, so people are a little bit less tempted to break the law. [1] The gross thing about some of these startups was that they were looking for people to hire to squat on parking spaces. Not just the one-off space, but literally, your job was squatting until someone paid for the space. It's unbelievable. I hate parking here but not enough to screw around with other people looking for a parking space or to pay for a service like that. I would not shed a single tear if cops started using the apps in question to write the people selling spaces $300 tickets for breaking local laws. Really not sure why all these "disruptors" can't just channel their energy into improving public transit and working on better (but slower and still imperfect) approaches to the parking problem just like sfpark. "Let's find you an available space and let's make it frictionless for you to pay for parking" if not just "let's fix the problems you have with taking Muni" is better in the long term than "let's create an app to auction off _public_ parking spaces". I'm not even going to approach reservationhop because I also own a restaurant. I could write a wall of text about that.... edited in: [1] So I addressed this in other comments, but the sfpark program also involved installing per-spot sensors in over 8k meters in the city (along with credit card-supporting meters and remote pay). There was an official app (and third party dev access!) that showed you which _exact spaces_ were available near you. Imagine the ability to just discover that there's a space open 2 blocks away at half the price of the area you were searching in. Now that's the kind of technology I could get behind that would have a chance of destroying Monkey Parking and the likes on its own. I'm hoping SFMTA brings that back soon.