Parking

Brisbane City Council is switching off the parking metres from Friday.

One of the country’s most well-known hospitals has set up a COVID-19 treatment center in a parking garage, according to video accounts and a statement from the hospital.

COVID-19 has forced cities across the nation to quickly respond to the changing needs of the curb. Most communities have ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and anywhere people may gather: gyms, theaters, and restaurant dining rooms. Despite these closures, restaurants are offering tak…

Drivers can cancel downtown parking contracts, but few have.

Yesterday’s reporting and compliance mechanisms aren’t dynamic enough. Today’s evolving transportation marketplace calls for nuanced, citizen-centric control driven by actionable real-time data.

Downtown Spartanburg has plenty of parking. It just needs to better manage what it already has, parking consultant Todd Litman told Spartanburg leaders

COVID-19 is requiring us to cut non-essential travel in the short term. It’ll be harder to do it in the long term — but it will be worth it.

Transport for London (TfL) has announced that all road user charging schemes in the UK capital will be temporarily suspended from today (March 23) until further notice, in order to allow critical workers to travel around the city without incurring fees or restrictions. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Kha…

By Michael Brenneis

“This is a tipping point for teleworking.”

By Chaise Sanders bhamnow.com

Boulder officials are easing up on parking enforcement amid a novel coronavirus outbreak that has increasingly shut down normal human life across the globe.

Op-ed: Unlike, well, everything else, loading regulations have barely changed in 70 years.

A proposed condo and hotel project would put a driveway and garage entry on a stretch of Natoma Street, between First and Second streets, that’s now effectively car-free. That is angering champions of bike lanes and walkable streets.

City Tech Collaborative is turning Chicago’s Millennium Garages into the Millennium Gateway Innovation Lab to help implement new tech solutions.

Pittsburgh’s proposal to eliminate a parking requirement for new row houses would help stimulate affordable housing, promote sidewalk safety and preserve the historic integrity of neighborhoods, officials said. City Council on Tuesday introduced a resolution crafted by Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration that would eliminate a zoning requirement for single-family row

SUVs and pickups are getting so big that they’re starting to have trouble fitting into some home garages, parking garages and public parking spaces.

Typically, with new development comes new parking spaces. Most Pittsburghers travel by car, and developers assume most of the people visiting their new retail and...

Although Washingtonians love to bike and walk to work, employer benefits are currently set up to give the biggest reward to people who drive. That might soon change.

What if cities and communities rethought parking policy and designed it not only to serve transportation goals but also equity goals? Leading with equity creates better transportation options for all. It also opens up new ways of looking at traditional problems and solutions. This includes the commo

The lawsuit argues replacing a surface parking lot with 100 subsidized apartments would cause them “irreparable injury.”

As Glendale Community College continues plans to construct additional parking on its Garfield campus, residents voice their concerns about affordable housing, traffic and the project's environmental impact.

A Quarterly Column by Jessica Roberts, Alta Planning + Design

The station would become the centerpiece of a walkable “downtown.”

The parking meter was first used in Oklahoma City in the 1930's. Today, meters cost two dollars an hour to park downtown. Recently, a consultant recommended the city raise that price by 50 cents. “I definitely think there are going to be people who will struggle with the change, but again the purpose of this is to create turnover with on-street parking so that you would have the opportunity to get that perfect spot more often," said Michael Scroggins from Embark.

Cities like Chicago are taking a fresh look at how they fine residents.

A traffic study commissioned by the city of Augusta indicates there is enough parking downtown but it is not being used properly.

“Everyone think this is about a money grab, and it’s not,” said Julie Dixon, whose firm is leading the process of implementing the results of a parking study done by another firm. Instead, she said, the proposed changes are about creating a “sustainable” and efficient system.

It’s a trend! Another Manhattan community board has demanded that the DOT figure out how to reallocate curb space so that roadways are not such a chaotic, unsafe mess.