if they're not blocking a muni line if there's no where for them to pull offer and and so forth. but it's gotten to an extreme point when some double parking if really necessary but otherwise the law is to be obeyed. and unfortunately, when outside of downtown in the sylmar area. so before we start the presentation from the mta and we're going to hear from the mta and the police department and the small business division i want to invite of mr. taylor. i want to thank him for organizing that and we put out a call on facebook 80 for people

to send in photos for double parking and we've got a few examples that mr. taylor is going to show. >> . go to the next one.

and this one shows a double-parked car in the back. and i think it's 9th and oring where they can't go anywhere so people locked their keys in the vehicle. i don't know exactly how long that shut down the service but

it caused an impact. we have another photo it didn't make it here but the truck basically couped the whole roadway. i thank you, mr. taylor. i now - before we get to the department supervisor breed? i'd like to call up the mta riccardo. mr. lay i want to thank you and your colleagues with the mta in terms of working with the statistics and the presentation you're about to show >> good afternoon. supervisors and member of the publics i'm riccardo i'm the city traffic engineer we i have a few colleagues that are the heads of

our parking enforcement groups. thanks for the introduction you pointed out a lot of the issues with the double parking it's common in san francisco and a lot of the large decency cities across the world. when i was reaching this there was from new york city and philadelphia. it's a common problem with the cities that rely on the streets for loading activities there's a greater tendency in those situations to have double parking. of course, in other areas of san francisco or for some types of building there maybe off-road site loading but for our commercial streets that's not the case. some can impede parking bikes.

the exact impact on transit and the users of the city there's no one summer that can be given for any street whether it's a two-way or 1-way street or multiple lanes but as we know the delays can be significant. in the case of light rail vehicles they have no ability to pass the double parking. particularly with our transit system that increases our traffic facility. we had someone in 0 traffic department do a study and a their conclusion the double parking added 8 seconds per block to 2 blocks would have a

17 second delay and it's not especially on admission but when buzz are spaced every three to four seconds this can be significant. double parking can impact safety. this photo shows a bicyclist trying to get around the loading on valencia street but the double blocking makes people change lanes and so forth. when we look at the collision the collision report doesn't necessarily represent the double parking problems so that collision might be an unsafe lane change but we can't see the

problem that the double parking caused but we know it's a problem. in order to protect bicyclist lanes one of the main things we protect this from blocking the bicycle lanes >> the protective bike lanes only work if you don't have the protected bike lanes but the unbelievable of our like lands it seems like in a lot of areas people are using bike lanes to park. what is the agencies view on, on how we can reduce that?

>> some of the streets we're looking at the major redesigns have looked at what new york city did or john fitzgerald kennedy drive is flip the lane and the bicycle lane is between the situation and the like lane. we have not denouncing done that on urban streets but, yes the fact that bike lanes create a temptation for double parking is an ongoing issue as we try to create wired bike lines but that could be seen as the double parking lane we wanted to avoid those situations. in terms of pedestrian safety in particularly places where the crosswalk is as shown here is

can make it harder for places that the pedestrian are trying to cross. and it's a particular issue around schools. our agency has taken a lot of measures to try to prevent the double parking around schools. double parking is going to occur when you have parents dropping offor picking up children so are the bus zones we see it's a peaking type of activity. a lot of people can arrive on one spot and go away shortly. so it's difficult to address this but we try to mitigate this and identify the solutions for

the problem areas. in addition to just the enforcement there are other tools that the agency tries to address the double parking we have the white and yellow zones we have 2 thousand spread over the city. parking in general has been a controversial subject but parking meters and so forth this can help the availability of open spaces. peak hour were addressed in the financial district. so if you go to the downtown area you'll see streets have in parking at certain hours and not allowing people to park is where

the parking issue is mitigate. we have the mta and department of public works has the ability for people to apply for for example, if so moved someone has a large parking van they can get temporary passes so they don't have to double park for one type of use. now, of course, enforcement is one of the key ways to pertain double parking. there's one way to directly cite the code section which prohibits double parking and we have over the time increased the parking zones so you can get towed away. we also early on were one of the

cities to put the meters so the commercial vehicles have time limits and we try to enforce the time limits where there's a lot of truck loading so they have so obey the limit. while vehicles can be 18 inches away from the curb it allows the ability to load outside of that when they're actively loading. other cities in the united states have those rules for policies if the vehicles can't find a loading space there maybe some leeway there. it does allow the cities where they don't want double parking

from vehicles that need to load and we've implemented that double signage on gary street downtown. mission street and downtown on or having. enforcement practices by our parking control officers rely mainly on this issue of whether or not the commercial vehicle has a legal space available if they had they should be using that. and if they're not actively loading they can be cited or they tell the vehicle it's time to move and if they disobey they can be cited. the double is prohibited at all

times. in terms of fines ever a decade ago were in the $50 rage and accident mayor's office said let's double the fine on certainty corridors and streets during peak hours so major muni routes we find is higher. so over the times they doubled in practice and those innovates became unnecessary so we charge $110 by law. in terms in terms in terms in terms of citation totals those don't include the

automated that penalties there's about thirty or inform a month so they're given out by parking control officers. and from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. their given out during that time and the typical deliveries are made in the morning this is a little bit more availability to park in the morning hours to there's the intersection of morning delivers obey heavy where the vehicles are starting to arrive for shopping. there's more trucks so that's why the concentration of

citations in the middle of the day. almost 62 percent are truck vehicles and a small amount of motor homes and other vehicles. we tried to break down the taxi but because of the complications we were not able to do that. and a breakdown by supervisor districts they're in the north eastern quadrant >> if i could just look at o statistics again, i think we'd expect there would be more intensive enforcement but the double parking is an issue throughout the city.

i'm not suggesting there's notice enforcement from the south corridor but there's dramatically less. and so can i comment on that because i know that when i first called for the hearing and sfmta had give out a lot of tickets i think i made a comment at the time i had never been made aware of anyone receiving a double parking ticket in the 16 years i've lived here. one person told me she'd received a double parking ticket. bs but there are slots in the city that have not bush street level congestion but why do we

have so much less in areas and mta thinks we should have important consistent enforcement >> speaking genetically we identify the key corridors and so we do try to work out together with our transit team in terms of identifying the locates. the double parking incident is quite large. yes. we've giving out 20 thousand citations where are the

prior he locations we're determining for parking tickets i'll invite my colleague to talk about that >> i'll tell you by way of example on castro street now we because castro street is one lane in both directions people feel very liberty to double park. and either the bus or cars can't get around the double-parked vehicles. as you know we're about to widen the sidewalks and so castro street will be more of a normal street and double parking will have significant impacts. i have committed to my constituents and colleagues

saying i'll increase the double parking in the area but it takes two to tangible >> good afternoon the enforcement manager. currently, we have 2 hundred and 61 parking control officers. their spread out thin, of course. we have 10 beats and those range from general to r vp to yellow zones to street cleaning which is one of the bigger compacts of what we do. so during the course of the day and one of the charts there had most of the citations for double parking in the evening that typically shows the dispatching

in the morning. those two areas are the primary areas that manage double parking so not all of our enforcement officers handle the double parking. so the key area we can do a better job is on the complaint. we have details and they handle containments outside of those areas you such as the do you only u downtown. so if there are containments they come through by citizens or by 311 or dispatch or a call. typically though when we get out there they're typically begun. so it's sort of a difficult challenge >> yeah. it definitely calls for focus.

i i know for example, there are times when mta do so sweeps on your tires they're not angered to the curb and i know on the street it drives people cease you can't tell it's an combine and an enormous amount of people are getting tickets or your pursuing two inches onto the sidewalk and all of a sudden there's like a sweep of tickets but then you have all this double parking and it's harder to catch people for sure but it's not impossible. sometimes, it smeem there's a focus on the eyes tickets as opposed to to the harder issue

tickets that are having a more impact on the traffic. that's part of the frustration someone comes to me and says wait a minute, i got a ticket for not kirsten my wheels and all those folks are double parking and not getting ticket. what should i say to people i think it's a valid point >> well, certainly we don't do selective enforcement we enforce whatever laws are not followed. there are some cases such as a sidewalk parking. we have a more difficult time getting out to those areas that don't have an rp public works area or general enforcement area so we don't have as many pc os. so once we get a complaint we'll typically got out to there and

observe the whole neighborhood and cite several vehicles in violation. we'll get a to a better staffing level and two is to do what i've always wanted to do it's saturation. we've tested it and it's been done in the past. we've in our public works areas it's very difficult to handle certain areas that are lagged where you have to chalk the tire and come back whatever the time was. with a saturation we can put people in more areas whether their complaint driven or a transit area and do a different area each day.

so when we hire the next batch which is 26 pc o hopefully by the end of this year by january 1st, we'll be back up to where we were in january of this year we'll again, that process of having folks got out and professionalism saturation on problem areas. i don't want you to think we're selectively picking certain areas or areas that we're enforcing we want to be fair we want to be impartial. although if you look at those numbers it's hard to not draw that conclusion. and i think in the end the mta is very good at the doing parking enforcement with they enforce a certain impact of the

law. but i personally think a lot of folks agree that parking is one of the areas it's harder to enforce could use more attention >> and i agree with you. >> thank you. >> continue with my presentation with a few more slides. this is the breakdown of the citations vs. downtown and this is parking meters one and 2 which include south of market and the financial district and broadway. in terms of streets mission street is our number one street by sheer nature it would be the heaviest transit routes so it's a priority that our agency anyway's there are no double

parking. and streets like hate and chet north nut and that's for our transit line. we looked at corridors like church and 16th and 18th and third street their less than one citation for day in a typical year in those corridors. so what are the challenges? i think we've touched on a lot of these but if the loading happens all at once everyone is there so double parking ensues. sometimes, we try to provide parking zones but if one is occupied by a large vehicle in parking a large truck is sometimes challenging. and particle deliveries are becoming a conversation item

themselves as the internet takes off people are using the internet and businesses are asking for particles to be picked up. those these companies value speed so they may double park in front of a loading space that's available and their obviously in places like residential areas or the one distance f that - business that gets the one delivery a day. finally there's some streets that have no parking sprays. and as we're looking at the loading you situation and

there's there's no accomodation of paying for deliveries we have to balance. that - at the same time, we're trying to not put two. yellow zones and the most extreme is the tow waterways they're seen as a more extreme solution and finally we're trying to balance the need for commerce in san francisco to keep is a vibrant healthy community >> i have one question to get a ticket for an any infraction you've got to be observed by the

law enforcement officer. there's a personal observation here by the pc o >> for double parking you have to be present. >> 2450 one area where we see a - we see it frequently with cabs they don't bother to pull over to the curb when we can. there are times when cabs can pull over but they don't bother and if - could someone call and report that cab driver to the mta the way you would other violation it's not appropriate for them to be 48-hour period to pull over >> they can but we have to be present to get a visual.