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Parklet spaces offer lifeline for businesses, unique experience...
Parklet spaces offer lifeline for businesses, unique experience...
‘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 […]
·charlestoncitypaper.com·
Parklet spaces offer lifeline for businesses, unique experience...
The opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change
The opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change
How, in the middle of a climate crisis, does it make sense to make driving artificially cheap by refusing to charge drivers the full cost it imposes on society? And how can subsidizing driving be considered “just” when it threatens the futures not only of people with far fewer resources around the world, but also future generations, who don’t have a say in the matter at all?
·frontiergroup.org·
The opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change
After easing off-street parking requirement, Pittsburgh considers move to limit curb cuts
After easing off-street parking requirement, Pittsburgh considers move to limit curb cuts
Pittsburgh officials are working to reduce the number of driveways required for new townhouses in the city. Creating off-street parking requires a curb cut and makes walking on sidewalk potentially dangerous, Councilwoman Deb Gross said Tuesday during a council committee meeting. Under a proposed change in the local zoning law
·triblive.com·
After easing off-street parking requirement, Pittsburgh considers move to limit curb cuts
No Parking Here
No Parking Here
Los Angeles has the space to solve it's housing and transportation problems, it just needs right priorities. LA County has more than 110,000 acres of parking, enough to pave over Manhattan 7.5 times. Turning 10% of these parking spaces into homes could easily satisfy the current 550,000 home deficit for low-income renters. More than $1 Billion is spent every year just building new parking in Los Angeles.
·noparkinghere.com·
No Parking Here
Parking Is Devouring American Cities
Parking Is Devouring American Cities
Car culture in the U.S. spurred a parking boom since the early 1900s. As a result, cities are chock full of parking lots and garages. Cheddar explains why this happened and the often unseen damage it's doing to our urban centers.
·cheddar.com·
Parking Is Devouring American Cities
City to reserve more parking spaces for carsharing
City to reserve more parking spaces for carsharing
The city’s pilot project to provide street and municipal-lot parking spaces for carshare services was successful, and the program would be made permanent, the city’s Department of Transportation announced.   At Smith and Butler streets in Cobble Hill, the site of two on-street carshare spaces, on Earth Day, DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman announced the program would expand from 14 pilot …
·brooklyneagle.com·
City to reserve more parking spaces for carsharing