By Alexander Mullaney, Mission Local
After waiting 20 minutes on the J streetcar because of a double-parked delivery truck, District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener stepped out to investigate. He found the offending delivery truck driver, four streetcars backed up and another issue to add to his list of needed transportation work.
At a hearing on double parking at the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee Monday, Wiener discovered that beyond interfering with transit, double-parked vehicles create dangerous situations for bicyclists and pedestrians, and confirmed his suspicion that enforcement is concentrated in downtown.
Nowhere is double parking more common than on Mission Street. In 2012, of the 22,860 double parking citations issued citywide by the Department of Parking and Transportation, approximately 1,500 were given on Mission Street, making it the worst in the city, according to data presented by Municipal Transportation Agency’s Ricardo Olea.
However, if enforcement was more consistent across the city, the number could be much higher. Outside of downtown, about 30 to 40 $110 citations are issued a month on some commercial corridors and one every other day on others, according to Wiener.
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