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An affordable rental project for residents living with mental illness failed to cross the finish line in Port Coquitlam council chambers recently, with

As we consider how to decarbonize transportation, preserving mobility, especially for lower- and middle-income people, must be a priority.

Study finds drivers spending up to a fifth of pre-tax income on running a car as lack of infrastructure deters people from cycling

16 online calculators for housing, transit, social justice, etc.

State and local governments are rethinking land use policy to cut emissions and improve social outcomes.

The Biden administration announced a $105 million grant Thursday for Michigan to remove a Detroit highway that leveled a Black community half a century ago.

If urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?

One common argument for highways is that even if they fail to reduce congestion, they allow people to go more places. This claim overlooks the effects of highways on development patterns.

A surge in vehicle crashes is disproportionately harming lower-income families and Black Americans.

A recent editorial argued that bike advocates left out the marginalized in their advocacy for new bike infrastructure on Summit Avenue. What if we applied that analysis to cars?

Research suggests the most promising solution would be to provide direct cash assistance.

Vancouver city council failed to pass a new Climate Emergency Parking Program designed to raise revenue to fight climate change, with 6 votes against the plan and 5 in support of it.

The free ride for car, truck and delivery drivers in Portland isn’t over, but the end has never been easier to see. At City Council Wednesday, Mayor Ted Wheeler and Read More »

Traffic and parking tickets are issued more often in Black neighborhoods than White ones, according to data from D.C. analyzed by The Washington Post. Advocates for changing the District’s system of fees and fines say the disparities show that the city’s ticketing and traffic enforcement policies not only target Black drivers but criminalize poverty.

"I saw a police officer standing next to my car.... [He] mentioned someone called the police when they saw me get out of my car with my family."

Where are the accessible EVs?

The plan outlines free on-street parking from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. within the neighborhood.

Changes are coming for those with handicap placards and license plates, but a new permit will exempt certain people from paying for metered parking.

Elevated Chicago is partnering with the office of Mayor Lightfoot to change the obsolete rules that govern development near transit in Chicago.

They say no to everybody.  That’s the answer a La Crosse woman got from City Hall when she asked to have a special handicapped parking space reserved outside her house, and was turned down.  Eileen Kennedy tells the La Crosse board of public works this week that she would like a handicapped space designated outside […]

Despite the backlash from those who argued that free, super-convenient parking is a social justice issue, the city installed the pay-and-display boxes, and the meters were activated this morning.

Would;t it be nice to park your car for free? That's something many of us think of when we roll up to a parking meter in the DMV. Well, some Metro employees in Montgomery County have figured out a way to get free parking, and they're using invalid disabled parking placards to do it. That's what the 7News I-Team uncovered after a two-month investigation looking at Metro workers who park outside a bus garage in Bethesda, Maryland. WMATA bus garage.

Parking at some prestigious cancer centers can run into hundreds of dollars. The overlooked cost is finally drawing scrutiny from hospital administrators.

A new study from Move Minnesota breaks down parking's impact on our climate, housing, racial justice, and the local economy. What would it look like to turn that research into action?

How, in the middle of a climate crisis, does it make sense to make driving artificially cheap by refusing to charge drivers the full cost it imposes on society? And how can subsidizing driving be considered “just” when it threatens the futures not only of people with far fewer resources around the world, but also future generations, who don’t have a say in the matter at all?

Taking parking enforcement out of the Madison Police Department may open greater windows of opportunity.