Suckers in Cars: Quit Whining, Try ParkMatch

Someday my hope is that The City will become a pedestrian and transit oasis.  All the elements are there -- dense urban core, broad avenues to accomodate bike and transit lanes, an active and forward-thinking population.  Only problem is that everyone who lives here is a Californian, and as we all know, it's a Californian's birthright to drive their own car wherever and whenever they please.

Thankfully, the cosmos has apportioned quite a bit of negative karma to the car driving population of San Francisco --  mostly in the form of terrible, terrible parking.  Emily Chang notes the web site ParkMatch, which looks to put people with cars and people with parking spaces together.  My hope is that when you see how much people are charging to rent an eight-by-fifteen plot of land in The City, you'll realize that your parking space is more valuable than the car in it and have to make a choice -- do you continue to whine about parking, or do you sell the car, rent the space, and start whining about Muni service instead?