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Why drivers risk tickets instead of parking in their garages


Why do so many San Franciscans park in their driveways, blocking the sidewalk? Our readers wanted to know, so we asked people: Why don’t you park in your garage?

Residents from across San Francisco wrote in explaining that people in their neighborhoods habitually try to stuff cars into too-short driveways, leaving part of their vehicles extending into the pedestrian walkway. | Source: Paul Kuroda for The StandardThe answers ran the gamut, including the downsides of historical architecture, the challenges of owning an electric vehicle and fear of car break-ins. | Source: Paul Kuroda for The StandardMeanwhile, neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, Mission, Russian Hill and Noe Valley are chock full of homes built before everyday people owned automobiles, according to San Francisco Heritage President Woody LaBounty.

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