shinypants parent
I have to disagree that it is unequivocally good as many of the tickets SFMTA writes are for minor inconsequential violations and are disproportionately punitive.
Obviously this is my opinion and personal experience but in the past 6 months I have received multiple tickets for not turning my wheels enough on a flat street, tickets for missing license plates (it was just not visible), and for miscommunication between the residential permitting and parking authority. Each of these was over $100 and/or required me to spend a considerable amount of effort to resolve.
More than any other city I have lived in the parking authority seems almost adversarial to car ownership and streamlining of the bureaucracy related to car ownership.