Parking

MEPs gave their final green light to the EU Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities.

In June of 2020, Edmonton became the first major Canadian city to remove minimum parking requirements. The change meant that instead of developers and businesses having to provide a specific number of parking spaces, they could decide how much to offer. (Accessible spots for people with disabilities continue to be required). Ashley Salvador, who is now a city councillor but was working as an urban planner at the time, advocated for the change and now considers it a success. "A fear that we heard

Parking is set to be removed from nearly 1,200 bus stops to help seniors and people with disabilities access transit.

"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?

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

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 […]

SPEARFISH — To help solve a handicap parking space deficit, Spearfish city officials have approved converting six existing parking spaces in the downtown central core business district into handicap accessible

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.

The City of Berkeley will be considering this question on Tuesday afternoon, when the City Council is scheduled to once again take up the topic of minimum parking regulations

The city has barely made any headway on changes intended to combat rampant parking placard abuse that Mayor Bill de Blasio promised nearly two years ago, officials have admitted. Digital stickers — pitched in February 2019 as a cure to prevent holders from switching placards from vehicle to vehicle — have reached only a tiny […]