Parking

During sold-out Walton Arts Center events, the accessible spaces are 87% full.

The lack of parking spaces, especially in big cities, is not only a problem for...

Lawrence and Manhattan charge employees and residents to park in its parking garages because of high costs associated with maintaining the structures.

The bill was introduced by Brooklyn Councilman Justin Brannan and would launch a pilot program to create means-based financial penalties for civil transgressions.

Eastgate P&R of yesteryear / Photo by ECTran71 / Wikimedia Commons Ever since the advent of commuter express routes, park-and-rides (P&Rs) have been a mainstay in the built environment of t…

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Cars keep getting heavier, and experts are worried that aging parking garages simply weren’t built to cope.

Houston is among the worst cities in the country when it comes to land dedicated to parking.

DOT is expanding car-share spots in the northeast Bronx. Locals say the agency has ignored calls to place the spots on private property instead of city streets.

A new report suggests that New York City is owed more than $1 billion in unpaid parking and speeding tickets.

Parking in East Orange has been a thorny issue for residents and visitors for decades.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to reinstate a lawsuit from Chicago drivers who claimed the city's costly parking meter rates were derived from a 75-year, $1.1 billion contract with a private company in violation of U.S. antitrust law.

Current European parking policies do not seem to steer towards a future where urban transport meets the climate goals. Prominent in current housing an…

News Release April 6, 2023 More than 500 restaurants and bars have applied for a City of Toronto CaféTO curb lane café patio this summer. These patios will enhance the vibrancy of Toronto’s streets and neighbourhoods and provide small businesses with the opportunity to serve more customers in outdoor dining spaces. City staff are reviewing […]

Called the Parking and Congested Traffic (PACT) Program, the idea is launching with public engagement this spring, followed by a summer of refining draft plans before they are presented to the Carm…

A large affordable housing complex will be built without parking. SFMTA is hoping that the lack of free parking will dissuade residents from bringing cars.

Where curb parking is overcrowded, drivers who are searching for a rare open curb space congest traffic, pollute the air, and produce carbon dioxide. To avoid these problems, some cities have established Parking Benefit Districts that charge market prices for curb parking and spend the revenue to pay for public services on the metered blocks. A case study of Manhattan’s Upper West Side found that charging market prices for the currently unmetered curb spaces would eliminate 22 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per block per year and yield at least $1,025 per household per year to improve public services.

The D.C. Council’s recent vote to provide each resident a $100 monthly transit subsidy may appear to be a worthy effort to boost mass transit use, but the reality is that it is a costly and ineffective gesture that ignores a much bigger problem with mass transit in the District, which is that the D.C.’s default policy of accommodating on-street parking wherever possible effectively reduces bus speeds so much that few people bother with buses unless they have no other choice.

Right now, there are probably between 700 million and 2 billion parking places in the U.S. But the sea of American parking lots is slowly shrinking.As cities realize that they’ve built more parking than they need, dozens have eliminated parking requirements in new buildings. In California, any new construction near public transit no longer has to include parking. That means there’s room for more apartments, and rents can be lower. Here are nine recent parking lot transformations.

The meter vs. kiosk debate is over — the meters won. Last week, the Spokane City Council approved a $1.8 million contract to buy 880...

Richmond could soon join the likes of New York City, Philadelphia and Atlanta as it considers eliminating mandatory minimum parking space requirements when new buildings are constructed.

Generative AI platforms like Open AI's ChatGPT are being used to write anything from letters to news articles and novels.

Decades of underinvestment in streetcar, bus and train service coupled with an increase in public funding and planning priorities to make roads fast, smooth and far-reaching, help explain today's transit situation.

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) $2 million through the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant program. This grant will fund a pilot program to develop a digital inventory of curb assets and regulations in the Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA)...

Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized commercial strips, the number of potential units expands by orders of magnitude.

A referendum emphasized how many residents had come to regard the scooters as dangerous nuisances with little environmental benefit. Other cities were closely watching the vote.

But parking cash-out laws can help more workers use climate-friendly transit instead of cars.

The new payment system aims to increase Omaha's on-street parking turnover in high-demand areas, which aims to help drivers find available parking more quickly and decrease traffic congestion.

One parking structure pivoted to growing mushrooms and endives.

In 1978 Toronto’s downtown had massive areas dedicated to surface parking. Over the past 40 years, real estate developers and city council have transformed these essentially vacant lots to accommodate some of Toronto’s most iconic structures,