Parking

Commentary: Personal car drivers have paid for curbside parking for nearly 100 years. Delivery and rideshare companies should too.

“I’m just speaking from a parent’s perspective and how hard it is to to get certain things done for schools; and to see more cuts even proposed… it’s frustrating.” — Read More »

Hartford's City Council Monday night punted on a measure that would significantly hike fees on downtown parking-lot operators after major downtown investors including Alan Lazowksi and Shelbourne Global Solutions LLC came out against the measure.

A major residential development could be built on a match-day car park if approved by city planners.

COVID-19 has been catastrophic for public transit. Plunging fare and tax revenues are forcing drastic cuts. In a guest post for SPUR, two UC Davis law professors suggest that there’s a solution right under our feet: Make private drivers pay market rates to park on the public’s roads. And yes, they argue, it’s legal.

RTD found that 40 percent of parking spaces at market-rate developments near transit stations go unused at peak hours.

A parking lot company seeks to be part of the solution.

When you zip into a space and don’t pay for it, somebody is still footing the bill. It’s not just somebody else – it’s you. You’re paying for the traffic jams and pollution you’re getting stuck with.

Whether its via residential permits, more meters, or loading zones, candidates expect that motorists will pay for time at the curb.

Negotiations are almost complete on a contract to build a parking deck to replace the parking spaces that will be lost when the large lot across from the Walton Arts Center is redeveloped as part of the Cultural Arts Corridor project.

Parking in Aspen residential areas will remain free until February and virtual permits is a possibility in 2021. The city’s parking department lost $1M in revenue due to the changes because of the pandemic.

The St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office is “giving out grace” during the pandemic to St. Louisans with outstanding parking tickets through their Parking, Towing, and Assistance Program (P…

The 720-space structure, which has seen controversy and complications over the past three years, is planned as part of an upscale hotel.

Parking fines to increase in Collier County - Local

Automobile-dependent planning has changed automobiles from a luxury into a necessity. Excessive vehicle costs leave many households without money to purchase essential food, shelter and healthcare.

A 2019 law legalizing

The city council voted for the change in November, as part of a larger push led by Progressives and Black activists over the past six months to shift funding and responsibilities away from police.

R Rawlings, Vestre Ltd, discusses how COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for transforming urban spaces, and why introducing parklets could be the way forward

Power Switch: Fourth in a continuing series about the German energy transition. BERLIN—In Germany, you can go almost anywhere on a train. Inside this city’s glass-enclosed central station, trains from the local transit system arrive on the upper level from all over the region, their doors opening to disgorge the morning commuters. Down several turns of an escalator […]

In shoreline metropolitan regions, summer means beach season. Public beaches in urban and suburban areas serve multiple purposes: vital shoreline ecosystems, recreational amenities, vital spaces for cooling down during hot summers – especially for households without air conditioning – and open spaces for the public.

Philadelphia City Council passed a bill lowering the city’s parking tax. The move would roll back progress on meeting city goals and generating revenue at a time of financial crisis.

Digitising the kerb opens the door for more dynamic regulations and new approaches to kerb-usage fees that could enable more goal-driven management strategies.

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This trend is expected to grow significantly with the advent of autonomous driving, which might render on-demand mobility predominant. Recent studies have started looking at expected parking reductions with on-demand mobility, but a systematic framework is still lacking. In this paper, we apply a data-driven methodology based on shareability networks to address what we call the “minimum parking” problem: what is...

As car-sharing, ride-sharing and self-driving vehicles transform urban mobility, what use can we put the space once devoted to vehicles doing nothing?

Smart Columbus said the Pivot and ParkColumbus apps now give users the ability to pay for multiple trips, find parking Downtown and in the Short North