Brickbat: No Free Parking

San Francisco officials estimate the city will lose 14,000 parking places—5 percent of its total—when a new state law takes effect Jan. 1, 2025. The law bars anyone from parking on the street within 20 feet of a crosswalk. Sponsors say the law will improve pedestrian safety. It did not include funding for local governments to remove parking meters or to mark the zones as "no parking."