DPT’s Incredible Transportation Fact Sheet
The fine folks at the SF Department of Parking & Traffic put out a Transportation Fact Sheet each year. Among the statistics in the 16-page document:
- There are 519,545 driver’s licenses issues in the city; there are 49,772 disabled placards (that does not count temporary placards)
- The City absorbs a 35,400 net increase in vehicles each day (mostly commuters)
- There are 946 miles of paved streets
- The steepest street, 31.5%, is Filbert (parallel to Lombard)
- 40.5% of SF residents drive alone to work, 10.8% carpool, 31.1% take transit, 0.9% rode a motorcycle, 2.1% bicycle, 9.4% walked, 4.6% work at home, and 0.7% were “other”
- There are 7,200 intersections, and 1,148 of them have traffic signals; the first was installed in 1921
- There is one operating jitney in the city, as permitted by the SFPD. Where is it?
- There are 317 budgeted Parking Control Officers who issue 1,902,673 parking tickets over 320,000 on-street metered spaces, which brings in $88,174,228 in revenue. Compare that with $29,687,616 in revenue from meters ($1,173 per meter) and $5,492,633 in revenue from Residential Parking Permits
- The most common parking violation, at 34.9%, was Street Cleaning; 2nd was Expired Meter at 20.7% and 3rd was No Residential Permit at 10.3%.