It's not hard to understand why the city of San Francisco is racing ahead with it's implementation of AB413 citations for 2025 despite the lack of any credible support for its claimed basis for existence of improving pedestrian safety and it's unmarked, unnoticed restrictions.  San Francisco Expects a $876 Million Budget Gap for 2025 as San Francisco's expenses continue to rise far faster than its revenue. Record-high office vacancies driven by the persistence of remote work, combined with the local hospitality industry's languishing recovery from the pandemic, are weighing on city finances (ref: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-expects-876-million-015856027.html

There's an easy $200 million per year to be made by simply charging for previously free parking spots.  Dozens packed into a recent tense community meeting as the city unveiled a plan that would remove free parking from large swaths of the Marina and Cow Hollow neighborhoods (ref: https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/02/cow-hollow-sfmta-free-parking-paid-meters/  The City is clearly seizing on parking as a new source of revenue.  If we take the city's claimed 14,000 reduction in parking spaces for AB413, this represents $560,000 per night at $40 per citation or more than $200 million per year! Don't be surprised if this $40 changes up to $100 pretty quickly in line with all the other tickets that SFMTA burdens it's citizens with to realize an easy $500 million per year.  If we apply University of California, Berkeley academic Maron Satellite-imagery based analysis of 25,596 reduction in parking spaces then we extrapolate to perhaps $1 Billion per year.

The citizens are extremely irate and calling for recall of the SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transport authority) Director Jeff Tumlin (ref: https://www.change.org/p/sfmta-director-jeff-tumlin-must-resign