Parking requirements are the dark matter of the urban universe: they affect transport and land use in mysterious ways. These fun facts illustrate the costs and impacts of economically excessive
SpotAngels uses crowdsourced data to help find open spots, and alerts drivers to restrictions. It's partnering with Parking Authority of Baltimore City as it expands to Baltimore.
Portland parks will spend $8 million to extend North Park Blocks as part of Broadway Corridor redevelopment
The developments are part of the city’s Broadway Corridor redevelopment project, a plan to create a new neighborhood encompassing 34 acres in Northwest Portland between the Chinatown-Japantown historic district and the Pearl District featuring the 14-acre post office site as its anchor.
Our cities' transportation landscape is being dramatically altered. But a focus on small disputes overlooks the larger value questions that need to be addressed.
U.S. mayors like the idea of being less car-focused but hate the policies that could make it happen
A new survey of mayors finds a big disconnect between what mayors want in terms of street design and what they’re actually willing to support to make it happen.
Group to Decide How to Spend Downtown Parking Meter Revenue
The city is in the process of setting up a benefit district that will allow revenue from parking meters Downtown to stay in the area and be fed back into transit and other mobility improvements. It’s a model that has already been established in the Short North, where a committee made up of neighborhood leaders […]
Apartments With Free Parking Reduce Transit Ridership
But if you think that means increasing transit ridership in American cities will be as simple as taking away everyone’s “free” residential parking to make driving less convenient,…
Around 30 percent of Austin’s downtown traffic congestion can be attributed to drivers circling in search of a parking space. In order to solve that problem, Austin Transportation Department’s Parking Enterprise division has launched an effort to address the specific…
More Transit-Oriented Parking Is Coming To South Station
Is a parking garage an “amenity” if its users have to stuff their motor vehicles into the gridlocked heart of one of Boston’s worst traffic bottlenecks?
The Downtown Highway That Could Drive Hartford’s Comeback
The Connecticut capital has been using zoning and transit reforms to stage a downtown recovery. But there’s one big thing in the way: an aging interstate.
Small-scale urban developments starting to sprout. Thank a change in the parking code
The City of Miami eliminated its parking requirement for small-scale development in 2015. Small-scale projects in Little Havana, Wynwood, Allapattah and Edgewater are rising thanks to it.
To speed up buses, SF cut parking on San Bruno Avenue. Welcome to the city's future
The San Bruno Avenue Multimodal Improvement Project turned a scruffy neighborhood in San Francisco’s Portola district into a vision of the city’s future: wide sidewalks, “bulb-out” curbs, fewer parking spaces.