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Building Momentum: Reform Parking, Reduce Traffic (Taming Traffic Series Pt.2)
Part two of the Taming Traffic webinar series will focus on the critical role that parking management plays in urban traffic reduction. Parking management ha...
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Chicago Parking Meter Analysis: Renegotiation of parking meter deal saves money and sets stage for future turnaround — MyCuriousCity
By Chrissy Mancini Nichols Mar 18, 2014 This post first appeared at metroplanning.org Executive summary While I was with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) I analyzed the 2013 Chicago parking meter concession renegotiation and found that the settlement will save the City of Chicago and
Vehicles Are Still Firmly in Control of City Streets
Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities and bike riding continues to grow. Yet urban streets are still designed and used like highways. Change is happening, but at a very slow pace, says urban expert Jeff Speck.
Why It Is Time to End Mandatory Parking Minimums in Dallas - D Magazine
Parking policies hide the cost of car travel by making it more difficult to build vibrant urban places. Until they are abolished, Dallas will never regrow its core.
Who’s Really Supposed to Pay for Your Commute?
The challenge for employers is to maximize savings for staff while keeping the benefit of having people come into work.
This porous pavement helps prevent flooding by absorbing rain
When cities are covered in pavement, they more easily flood because stormwater can’t get into the ground. This alternative has tiny little holes to let rainwater through, while keeping pollution out.
We Ran the Rent Numbers on Portland’s 7 Newly Legal Home Options
Here are the three options we think can start to be built today - and five things we learned from this math.
Seattle struck a ‘grand bargain’ on housing. Now City Hall is reviewing the initial results
Most real estate developers paid fees to satisfy Seattle's affordable housing requirements last year. The city collected $68 million from the 224 projects subject to the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program.
How San Diego thinks it will keep outdoor dining
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The Rise of the Parklet | From Rurban to Urban
COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.
Parking Startups Are Cashing In on America’s Traffic Surge
The post-pandemic return to the road is creating new business opportunities.
OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them – Streetsblog New York City
The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD’s huge cache of vehicles.
What Would It Take for Boston to Become a Car-Free City?
Here’s how we can become a place for people instead of cars.
Costly covered parking no longer required for Pasadena home add-ons – Pasadena Star News
There was an inherent unfairness about the rules, according to city staff. So they’re changed.
Why is it so hard to find chargers for electric cars? Utility regulations are partly to blame.
The days of driving a few blocks for cheaper fuel could rapidly be coming to an end. That might leave some areas without places for EVs to charge up.
Streets Are for People, Not Cars
Why the well-being of cities depends on a people-first approach
Opinion | I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing (Published 2020)
Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?
First Salvos Fired as de Blasio’s ‘Permanent’ Dining Sheds Begin the Community Board Process – Streetsblog New York City
The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.
The Power of Getting Paid Not to Park at Work
Subsidizing employer-paid parking clogs streets, boosts emissions and isn’t fair to commuters who can’t use this perk. But there’s an easy way to fix it.
CommonWealth Magazine
COMING FROM NEWTON I should have known that Greater Boston has hundreds of wonderful little downtowns and village centers, the hearts of walkable neighborhoods. Newton itself has 13 villages. I grew up walking to downtown Newtonville for blue slush puppies and books at the branch library, now a senior center. In my 30s, I lived(...)
We Sorted Through Parking Codes So You Don’t Have To - Parking Reform Network
Written by University of Illinois at Chicago students Maggie Kochman, Zane Jacobson, and Bobby Siemiaszko. From January through May 2021, three students at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s…
Modern cars are too BIG to fit in garages... causing parking chaos
Residential streets are becoming clogged with parked cars because larger modern vehicles no longer fit in garages, according to the RAC Foundation study.
Pleasantville's Dip in Meter Revenue Could Lead to New Parking Rules
The Pleasantville Village Board has enlisted BFJ Planning to explore downtown parking regulations and ways to improve it as the village experiences a sharp drop in parking permit & meter revenue.
WNY parking deck project has begun - Hudson Reporter
West New York’s Parking Deck Project will begin this month, the Parking Services Department announced. Phase I will entail the redevelopment of the 51st Street Lot, creating over 300 new spaces. The 51st Street Parking Lot closed on June 27 and will remain closed for about a year. The town said it “wholeheartedly understands that […]
Column: Will reducing parking spaces transform San Diego, other cities for the better?
Advocates say less parking can lead to more housing, safer streets, and help combat climate change
Affordable Housing in Denver Gets a Boost After Changes to Parking Code
Parking has long been one of the key barriers to affordable housing efforts. Not anymore.
Permanent Street Dining and Retail Could Lead to Windfall for Cities | Propmodo
New York City isn’t dead. Anyone who's enjoyed a beverage or a bite at one of the city’s hopping, vibrant Open Street eateries can tell you that. For
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IF YOU THOUGHT traffic was bad before the pandemic, wait until this fall. “I don’t think anyone wants to take the T,” said Emily, who has driven to work since last summer, but recently restarted taking the MBTA, due to the lack of a parking space and worsening traffic. Get the Daily Download Our news(...)