Before she was reelected in June, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pledged to make more space on the streets of her adopted city for pedestrians and cyclists by removing car parking spaces.

Schemes to reclaim city streets for pedestrians are flourishing during the Covid-19 pandemic

Cars, parked or moving, define our High Streets, at a heavy cost in space, health and lives. Could the pandemic see our CBDs become more people friendly?

Smart Zones enable commercial drivers to use personal mobiles to find nearby loading zones and to hold, book, and pay for time in them.

Indianapolis closed Mass Ave. and other roads to vehicles during the coronavirus pandemic. Some businesses loved it. Here's why it can't continue.

Pickup trucks and large sport-utility vehicles have flooded the streets of U.S. cities, a trend that’s been lethal for pedestrians and bike riders. Here’s what urban leaders could do about it.

“By eliminating car parking and narrowing automobile lanes we can create the space necessary to accommodate lightweight, human sized micromobility vehicles such as electric scooters.”

“We’re looking at that [year-round],” Hizzoner said at his Monday presser.

“Guess what, Gersh, a lot of people still have cars,” the mayor said sarcastically.

“Plans… are in full swing. We are designing a permit process that will allow not just restaurants but bars, retail, and personal service businesses to access the right-of-way.”— Margaux Weeke, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s office The food scene in Portland needs no introduction, but it does need more space. For restaurant, coffee shop and food cart Read More »

“This could be the best block party in the history of New York, but if we don’t get this right in the next three months, there will be a complete collapse of the tax base of the city,&#…

The needs of the logistics sector have been ignored by the Government in its guidance for managing urban streets during the coronavirus lockdown, says the Freig

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is asking San Francisco leaders to allow restaurants to temporarily expand outdoors as shelter-in-place lifts.

This post is part of a special series on curb management and COVID-19. A joint effort of IPMI, Transportation for America, and ITE’s Complete Streets Council, this series strives to document the immediate curbside-related actions and responses to COVID-19, as well as create a knowledge base of strategies that communities can use to manage the curbside during future emergencies.

Washington, D.C,, could radically transform itself by effectively banning parking on all major streets and anywhere else where it interferes in any way with bus traffic.

Managing urban spaces and planning for city needs of the future is a long-term undertaking. Cities must consider how to make solutions scalable for opportunities and challenges that will arise in five, 10 or 20 years.

Performance-based parking goes both ways, let your city’s first adjustment be a rate decrease. Demand for central city parking is, most likely, at all-time lows in many cities due to COVID-19 conce…

While we can expect that many people will continue to drive, their behavior won’t be the same as it was before.

COVID-19 has forced cities across the nation to quickly respond to the changing needs of the curb. Most communities have ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and anywhere people may gather: gyms, theaters, and restaurant dining rooms. Despite these closures, restaurants are offering tak…

COVID-19 is requiring us to cut non-essential travel in the short term. It’ll be harder to do it in the long term — but it will be worth it.

By Michael Brenneis

Op-ed: Unlike, well, everything else, loading regulations have barely changed in 70 years.

It’s a trend! Another Manhattan community board has demanded that the DOT figure out how to reallocate curb space so that roadways are not such a chaotic, unsafe mess.

DC plans to build 100 off-sidewalk corrals for dockless bikes and scooters in residential zones all across the city in the coming months.

European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars.

The San Bruno Avenue Multimodal Improvement Project turned a scruffy neighborhood in San Francisco’s Portola district into a vision of the city’s future: wide sidewalks, “bulb-out” curbs, fewer parking spaces.

Airports serve as handy case studies for what happens when the cars show up, and how to beat them back again.