Parking

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a five-story, 56-unit apartment building on what is now a vacant lot at 1970 Dorchester Ave., next to the Ashmont Red Line station. Read more.

Residents have complained that commuters using Caltrain have taken advantage of their streets for free parking.

Northstar California Resort’s recent announcement that they plan to charge for parking at the resort was met so much criticism from patrons that the resort has had to respond to those complai…

Cities significantly underprice their roads and parking facilities, forcing local taxpayers to subsidize out-of-town motorists. Municipal officials have an obligation to better manage these valuable

In light of the Downtown Memphis' Commission's review of downtown parking and ways to make it more effective and efficient, we are posting a commentary by retired UCLA economist Don Shoup, whose 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is considered the definitive authority on the subject. His recent book, Parking and the City, follows up: At the dawn of the automobile age, suppose Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller had asked how city planners could increase the demand for cars and gasoline. Consider three options. First, divide the city into separate zones (housing here, jobs there, shopp...

A new study in Toronto supports what other cities have found: trading street parking for a bike lane doesn’t hurt the local economy, and…

Nine curbside locations around the District will be available to reserve for commercial deliveries starting August 1, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) recently announced. The three-month pilot gives a company called curbFlow authority to manage the zones.

Houston is probably not destined to be among the world’s most walkable cities. Between the mind-melting heat, the ankle-breaking sidewalks, the criss-crossing freeways and the seemingly endless sprawl, getting around by foot isn’t easy to do. Still, there’s no reason to succumb to nihilism. So I welcomed the Houston City Council’s vote last week expanding the city’s “market-based parking area” to cover parts of Midtown, Montrose and East Downtown, as well as downtown’s Central Business District. It’s a relatively modest reform, to be clear. The change will exempt some new developments in th...

Chattanooga Airport officials on Monday OK'd constructing a 520-space economy parking lot with shuttle service to the terminal as Lovell Field deals with record passenger boardings.

For many people, living in their vehicles is the best they can do. Here’s how cities can help.

Nevada City, California, used to advertise its “bargain” parking meters. Now they’re getting more expensive to protect the town against an existential threat.

A huge development at the station promises a hotel and hundreds of homes, including low-income apartments for veterans. But it’s drawn criticism for removing parking spaces.

There are currently 228 parking spaces in the podium of the 227-unit Bay Towers building at 388 Beale Street, the majority of which are tucked away behind the vented semi-circles on the third and fourth floors of the 20-story building which was developed in 1999. But plans to remove 44 of the Bay Tower’s parking […]

Self-driving cars may someday drop off their owners downtown and then leave to find free parking. What would that mean for cities of the future?

Imagine using your smartphone to summon your car to exit the parking garage and pick you up at your front door. It may sound futuristic, but if a new system unveiled in London Wednesday is a success, the option may be just around the corner.

We’ve reached a new milestone in the long road to getting AI-based self-driving systems to be truly autonomous. Daimler and Bosch have now received approval from German regulators to run their automated driverless parking function without a human safety driver behind the wheel — making this the world’s first fully automated driverless SAE Level 4 parking […]

The global trend is to free up valuable city space by reducing parking and promoting other forms of transport that don't clog roads and pollute the air. Australian cities are still putting cars first.

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.” — Lewis Mumford, 1958 One of the unintended consequences of car-oriented cities is the sprawl created by cars that no...

Nottingham in England has had a workplace levy since 2012—it has so far raised £61 million, paying for multiple measures to get people out of cars.

Some say Hartford’s many parking lots could be used to host commercial and residential development.

These photos from the 1970s show block after block of parking, inside the National Mall.

Turning from the conflict of airport expansions to a vision of a low-carbon transport system.

As many of them fall into disrepair, some are adapting to cities' changing needs.