Parking

Thankfully, some cities are starting to get rid of extra parking spaces in favor of housing or other, better uses.

Many cities are getting rid of spaces, freeing land for new development. “People are looking for a place to live, not to park,” said a Buffalo city official.

The US has more than 2 billion parking spots. All that wasted space is bankrupting cities, slowing development, and driving up home prices.

OMAHA: Infrastructure updates stretching from the Old Market to Blackstone will change the city's parking infrastructure, starting in the next few months: lower initial rates, no more time limits, and changes to parking garages. Park Omaha says its most notable change is lowering initial street parking meters to $1 for the first two to three hours. The rate will progressively increase the longer a vehicle stays parked, eliminating time restrictions.

Car storage has eaten up big chunks of many cities. Some of those cities are starting to wise up.

The city is adding pay stations to two more lots. The price to park is also going up in May.

Alderman Cara Spencer, of Marine Villa, denounced the decision, reprising criticism she previously hurled at Mayor Tishaura O. Jones when they both ran for mayor two years ago.

LACONIA — After a three-month period calling for expressions of interest on the future of the downtown parking garage, the city has received no responses. Discussions about what to do with the garage have been bouncing around city government for years. Meanwhile, the cost to maintain and restore the structure have grown. A private option was a hoped-for relief for city leadership grappling with both their desire to fix an eyesore at the entrance to a revitalized Main Street and their discomfort to yoke taxpayers onto a now eight-figure project.

In "Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It," Daniel Knowles says a lot about how cars make life worse, and not enough about what to do about it.

Brainerd Planning Commission takes up conversation

On-street parking rates in Seattle will increase up to $1 per hour starting Monday as SDOT aims to open up more parking spaces in the busiest parts of the city.

The Royals have brought back their Fountain Pass option, which will let fans attend every home game this season for $39.99 a month. It’s a great deal for fans, but some have held off buying the pass because they’d have to pay for parking each time they go to the K.

It’s long past time for the city to rein in cops and other public servants who believe parking laws and tolls don’t apply to them.

Back in 2018, there was uproar when a 6-story storage facility was planned on the site of a surface parking lot at 1314 Spring Garden Street. With a ton of momentum happening in the area – multiple mixed-use and multifamily development planned nearby – a storage facility just didn’t seem to make sense. If you Read more about 149-Unit Building to Replace Parking Lot at 13th and Spring Garden[…]

Few cities' central corridors uses less space for parking than San Francisco.

For nearly half a year, this small business owner has been ready to open his coffee shop…but the city is refusing to let him do so, all because of antiquated parking mandates.

As Dallas examines its land use plan, it's time to talk about parking lots.

Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."

Maps show just how much space parking occupies in 50 city centers.

NORTHAMPTON — Reforms to Northampton’s parking system are officially in full effect across the city as a way for visitors of downtown to find parking near where they want to go.

The Seaside Institute is pleased to announce that Donald Shoup will be honored as the 2023 Seaside Prize recipient.

An economist who spent decades studying ’megaprojects’ has some advice for getting them right: Think slow, act fast and build brick by tiny plastic brick.

The changes to parking space standards have not kept up with the explosion in vehicle sizes.

If the EV transition focuses exclusively on drivers in privately owned cars, it won’t meet many Americans’ mobility needs, particularly in underserved communities.

Pedestrianizing America’s main street, Pennsylvania Avenue, would be the ultimate demonstration for the District, the nation, and the world that driving is not essential for a desirable, thriving neighborhood.

More than 380 loading zones in Oakland will be turned into smart zones, allowing for commercial fleets — like parcel and other deliveries — to seamlessly park and pay by the minute.

Mike Salisbury, transportation energy lead in the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency, explains what inspired the program and how the local government adapted to a huge public response.

Housing construction on what used to be a University of Utah parking lot has some students upset with the lack of parking. In the end, different Utah cities and schools have a variation of the problem.

Arlington's Parking team is preparing to launch a 3-year pilot project to learn more about how we can make metered parking in our two Metro-rail corridors work better for businesses, customers, residents, and workers. As the team prepares to deploy new technology to measure demand for parking, come learn more about the Pilot Project and share your input on the project goals with our team.