Is the service shoulder very dangerous?

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by citizensadvocate

Many times the posted speed limit on the road are as high as 45 or 50 miles per hour.
Even if posted lower traffic speeds in practice traffic still flows fast. This is the case with Fell and oak street, Van Ness and 19th avenue in San Francisco.
I would be surprised not so many people get hurt or in a collision while trying to park their car on the street. Parking on streets and highways in fast moving traffic is quite a daunting task. Statistically isn't one much more likely to be hit while parking alongside a roadway than broke down on a shoulder. And the driver often has to get out of the car with traffic speeding by at 45 miles per hour. And while pulling out moving back and forth until one can steer out of a space when traffic is flowing at that speed as well.

For the apartment/multi family housing dwellers I sympathize that they are often stuck with searching for limited street parking as often these high density projects offers severely limited parking for owners/tenants and their visitors.

Ahh, My old neighborhood. Can cars still park on the sidewalk?

[citizensadvocate]

It still happens from time to time in parts of San Francisco but it appears years of crackdown, campaigning, and education has finally greatly reduced parking on sidewalks in SF over the last decade. Though it makes it much harder for residents to find a space as parking is very tight especially when squeezing onto the sidewalks aka driveway in front of the house would likely result in a expensive ticket.