If you pay for public parking in San Francisco with your cell phone, you’re going to have to pay a little bit more this summer.
Starting July 1, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will charge a 35-cent convenience fee to drivers paying for metered parking using SFMTA’s mobile application. It will take effect six weeks after the agency first implemented a 10-cent fee for such transactions, and it follows the vendors providing mobile parking payment and support services charging the SFMTA a 35-cent fee.
Under those contracts, the SFMTA has the option to raise the fee to $0.37 in 2027 and $0.39 in 2029 to “allow for other potential cost mitigation,” according to a staff report. Collecting between 35 and 39 cents per mobile transaction fee over the next six fiscal years would save the agency more than $11 million, the report said…