Parking

Colorado Springs has extended the time vehicles can remain in metered spaces downtown and in Old Colorado City to up to four hours after 6 p.m..

Mayor London Breed touts longer meter hours, "congestion pricing" as fixes for traffic in spite of driver ire.

In Paris, as in many European cities, the number of cars is declining, which is leaving a vast amount of underground car parks empty. With its start-up project called "La Caverne", Cycloponics is reclaiming these urban territories using them as a way of growing plenty of organic vegetables. EURACTIV France reports.

We spent the time gathering parking data across Montreal -- both on-street and off-street -- and compared it with the vacancy rates on the city’s commercial arteries.

San Francisco's SFPark trial has raised the profile of performance-based pricing for on-street parking (see a video on this at the end of t...

Waste of money. Waste of space.

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Excellent example of handout for parking reform basics. Focused on Chicago.

How obscure parking rules have misshaped our communities and opportunities for better options. [long] Garages and driveways are the primary entrance to this Tigard, OR apartment complex. Photo credit Brett VA. Parking rules buried in city land-use codes have surprisingly pernicious effects. Requirements that builders provide ample quotas of off-street parking spaces worsen traffic, multiply collisions, push up housing prices, dampen business profitability, amplify sprawl, and pollute both air and water. Parking rules are a surprisingly potent hidden force shaping—or misshaping—our communiti...

Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing. What that could mean for cities in Washington and Oregon.

Citizens, however, have until Feb. 22 to tell the IRS to comment---and a mobilization campaign is pushing for Congress to get involved, too.

Equitable mobility requires good transit---not giving free parking to hundreds of car-owning downtown workers in the hope that some of them might be poor.

King County Metro has become a national hero of good transit. On Tuesday, it could take the next step: letting riders pay for parking if they want to.

Portland's own analysis shows that bans on car-free homes are catastrophic for Portland households who seek affordable housing.

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

Personal website of UCLA Professor Emeritus Donald Shoup

L.A. already has 6 million parking spaces. We need more homes for people, not cars.

The Seattle Department of Transportation announced changes to parking rates last week based on its annual study of paid spaces across the city.

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.

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.

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.

Rising land costs and changing consumer behaviors have conspired against “over-parking” at retail venues. One developer is bucking the trend.

Mintwood Real Estate founder Katy Slade suggests tweaks to off-street parking requirements

DC plans to build 100 off-sidewalk corrals for dockless bikes and scooters in residential zones all across the city in the coming months.