Parking

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.

America’s transportation sector remains the leading national driver of the climate crisis — and automobile drivers aren’t helping.

So does the entire auto industry. The allure of owning a car is fading. Young people would rather rideshare, and urban planners are rethinking transportation.

Car blindness— or “motonormativity”—is an unconscious bias that has policy implications, suggests new study on dangers posed by motorists.

MIT researchers found that the computers powering self-driving cars could have a large carbon footprint.

New travel patterns driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and remote and hybrid work are forcing transit agencies to reconsider their planning and operations, transportation officials said at the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting.

Starting January 1, 2023, real estate developers in Oregon and California will no longer be required to build off-street parking facilities for certain projects located near public transit.

The start of 2023 is a very real reminder that change is all around us.  The new year is a time to reflect on what has been and what will be. And often

Los Angeles Director of Planning Vince Bertoni was recently interviewed the effects of new state planning and housing laws in the state’s most populous city.

In the last year, the state's government has taken robust legislative steps toward stemming the housing crisis.