The first was dynamic, demand-based pricing at downtown parking meters to free up spaces, charging for curb parking based on its availability. Shoup wanted San Francisco to create a parking market that would raise prices high enough to ensure free spaces on every block, as opposed to the familiar first-come-first-served system that leads to that lurching style of driving known as “cruising” for a spot—“parking foreplay,” per Shoup—as well as countless altercations.
