Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...

It’s in the public interest for cities to convert the parking lanes of their major streets to outdoor seating, with chairs and tables. On the commercial avenue of the modern city, land use at…

The rules of restaurant spaces are up for grabs as the city’s Department of Transportation looks to the future of street and sidewalk seating.

CLEARWATER — There’s a glimmer of nightlife in downtown Clearwater. Sandwiched between North Osceola Avenue and North Garden Avenue along the 400 and 500 blocks of Cleveland Street, patrons gather on a recent weekend for Sip and Stroll, an outdoor food and drink event that has been happening the third Saturday of every month since October 2020. It started as a way for Clearwater restaurants to ...

Andrew Fidelman got the call in the middle of the night from a friend delivering bad news: The parklet outside his wine bar had been demolished by a speeding car.

During the pandemic, Boston converted parking spots into more pedestrian-friendly spaces. Here's why readers want to keep it that way.

The pandemic we just lived through caused deep changes not only in the health and economic sectors, but also in transportation. As local enterprises had to reinvent ways they do business, mobility dynamics changed as

The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?

Outdoor dining is helping save Rome's restaurants, but drivers don't want to see it lastbars.

The 15-Minute City states that all people should have access to all the goods and services they would need within 15 minutes of their home

The city has approved hundreds of outdoor dining permits since the pandemic began. Yet despite causing a big loss in parking across the city, the program appears to have widespread support.

Rachel Herbert owns three cafes in San Francisco. All sit next to parks that draw heavy picnic crowds and provide a respite of fresh air from some of The City’s more crowded neighborhoods.

Restaurant owners like Allan Rodriguez are happy to hear they can likely keep their additional seating outdoors for six more months.

The outdoor dining set-ups many restaurants created due to COVID-19 restrictions took over 8,500 parking spots away from the city.

The city's expansion of outdoor dining into the street helped restaurants lower indoor capacity, keep people safe and not lose customers through the pandemic.

The city found a way to ensure those tables placed in street parking spots can remain, even as it ends the COVID-19 state of emergency.

It’s a ‘step in the right direction’, some merchants say

Parklets, the public parking spaces that are rented to restaurants, offer an additional...

Yelp data shows greater consumer interest at restaurants on pedestrian-friendly “slow streets" that limited vehicle traffic during the pandemic.

‘Cool, Fun and Beautiful’ Charleston is often compared to European cities, with its ocean breezes, historic buildings lining narrow streets and array of cuisines. One of the missing pieces has been space to enjoy dinner or drinks in the open air, but as the pandemic locked restaurant-goers out of restaurants and cafes, it created an […]

Whose compromise? Our compromise!

As a popular dining destination faces city orders to rebuild a costly outdoor dining setup, advocates call for a clearer plan for opening up streets.

City council approved an ordinance to allow restaurants to use parking meters as outdoor dining spaces.

Communities shouldn’t give back the street space that they reclaimed during the pandemic.

Transportation, transit and traffic could be big issues in the city’s upcoming election. Here’s what the major candidates are saying about rethinking the streets.

Some new additions are popping up this week in Richmond to help businesses get some extra space for customers outdoors.