I'm not often surprised at how much space parking takes up. But, I just read the SFMTA 2014 Parking Census and...um...wow.
If you lined up the on-street parking spaces in San Francisco, it would be longer than *the state of California.*
If you lined up the on-street parking spaces in San Francisco, it would be longer than *the state of California.*
If you include the publicly available off-street parking (setting aside every garage, apartment, and private lot), the line of parking would stretch...
...from San Francisco to Minneapolis.
...from San Francisco to Minneapolis.
There are neighborhoods where at there is *at least* 1 square foot of public parking for every 3 square feet of land.
Work for above tweet:
20k-35k parking spaces ~= 200-350 acres
200-350 acres / square mile (640 acre) = .31 - .55 feet parking per square foot land
Note that this doesn't mean half downtown is parking, since a great deal is structured or underground.
20k-35k parking spaces ~= 200-350 acres
200-350 acres / square mile (640 acre) = .31 - .55 feet parking per square foot land
Note that this doesn't mean half downtown is parking, since a great deal is structured or underground.
There are more *public parking spaces* (i.e. homes for cars) than there are housing units (i.e. homes for people) in the City of San Francisco!
Smarter people than I would have to estimate the *total* amount of parking in San Francisco, including garages and private lots (@marcelemoran have you/anyone else done this?).
I strongly suspect it would add another several hundred thousand to the above figure.
I strongly suspect it would add another several hundred thousand to the above figure.
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