Originally Posted by
squeakr
My complaint on the parking plan specifically is that how would a sometime-driver or tourist to SF know what level of special event was being charged?
This is already the situation in the absence of dynamic pricing for street parking. At present, in many of the city's busier neighborhoods, there are few, if any street parking spaces available (in some neighborhoods, this is due to a lack of residential parking, so residents simply leave their cars parked on the public streets and move them only for street sweeping--but those are streets where parking isn't charged...).
Anyway, at present, the one-time tourist, if he/she actually takes a car, often must use structure parking--and I suspect few know what structure parking costs prior to driving. Dynamic pricing for street parking won't change that situation, although it is intended to create a situation where up to 15% of street spaces are available for parking. If implemented consistently, it might expand the private structure parking market.