Parking

Next month, Arlington County will hold a community event to kick off a three-year parking pilot program that prices parking by demand in a few highly trafficked corridors. This is the first official step forward since the Arlington County Board accepted a $5.4 million grant from the Virginia Dept. of Transportation for the "performance parking"

Parking along S. 13th Street in Pentagon City near Amazon's second headquarters in 2019 (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

As we consider how to decarbonize transportation, preserving mobility, especially for lower- and middle-income people, must be a priority.

“Granny flats” are popping up in backyards across the country, affording Americans a new housing option. Some communities are not happy about it.

Join the Lewis Center and advisory board member, Bill Fulton, as he shares his new book "Place and Prosperity." People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to other people who feel that same connection. In order to understand place – and understand human settlements generally – it is important to understand that places are not created by accident. They are created in order to further a political or economic agenda. Better cities emerge when the people who shape them think more broadly and consciously about the places they are creating. In Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate, urban planning expert Bill Fulton explores the process by which these decisions about places are made, how cities are engines of prosperity, and how place and prosperity are deeply intertwined. Fulton has been writing about cities over his forty-year career that includes working as a journalist, professor, mayor, planning director, and the director of an urban think tank in one of America’s great cities. Place and Prosperity is a curated collection of his writings with new and updated selections and framing material. A moderated discussion with Lewis Center Associate Faculty Director Mike Lens, will follow the book overview.

A Utah legislator is planning to introduce a bill that would forbid cities from having minimum parking requirements near transit stations in an effort to improve walkability and reduce housing costs.

“From the get go, 2900 Larimer was a magical block to shut down,” said Ratio Beerworks co-owner Jason ZumBrunnen.

More people are considering e-bikes as an alternative to cars and the California Air Resources Board wants to help them make the switch.

As many cities grapple with the housing crisis, some places are rewriting regulations and finding creative ways to repurpose these hulking masses of concrete that suck up valuable real estate.

Where could tens of thousands of new homes fit in one of the densest parts of America? One local official looks for pockets of opportunity.

It’s time for a walk through history. It was never easy to park, so don’t listen to today’s whiners.

A recent court ruling put a stop on a high-rise planned for the South Street Seaport, pitting preservation against housing needs — again.

Parking lots are being reduced in some municipalities in part to combat climate change. — Rich Segal

A proposed state bill would bar cities from requiring parking in areas adjacent to transit stations in an effort to make housing production more affordable and encourage walking and transit use.

Also in today’s episode, a look at the state’s most wish-listed Airbnb.

Developer Julian West wants to “help catalyze a conversation” about housing and transportation

We put too much trust in drivers to follow traffic laws. We can't have police at every dangerous intersection but we can use cameras.

When it comes to reducing gasoline-powered travel, what gives states the most bang for their buck? David Edmondson finds that e-bike subsidies are 2.9 times more effective per dollar at displacing gasoline-fueled travel miles than zero-emission vehicle subsidies.

Under-priced street parking is widely considered to be a great urban policy failure and is partly what motivated Stockholm to expand its parking zones…

There are few urban policies as contentious as a congestion charge – do they work and are they serving the wider public?

The city's next leaders need to focus on this issue.

These groups teach members how to fight for safer streets.

Exclusive: number of motor vehicles in 46 low-traffic neighbourhoods studied also significantly reduced

We help you understand what’s changed in the Highway Code recently, what you should be doing as a driver, and what you should do if something goes wrong.

In this episode, I chat with legendary parking guru Donald Shoup. Shoup is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and the author of The High Cost of Free Parking. We talk about some of the 2022 parking reform victories, the man behind the legend, and where we go from here.

New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold meetings so the public can comment on the plan, which is rebuilding the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE).

Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements  — laws that dictate how many parking spaces are required for various types of buildings and businesses — make housing more expensive, raise th…

The city reported zero pedestrian deaths on its streets in 2022. Planner Mike Lydon tells us how they did it.