Parking

Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

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.

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(...)

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…

Residential streets are becoming clogged with parked cars because larger modern vehicles no longer fit in garages, according to the RAC Foundation study.

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.

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 […]

Advocates say less parking can lead to more housing, safer streets, and help combat climate change

Parking has long been one of the key barriers to affordable housing efforts. Not anymore.

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

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(...)

Ann Arbor mayor's allies object to 'conspiracy theories' as they OK new high-density zoning

Since 2007, the Slovenian capital has been redesigning its city center so that certain areas are reserved exclusively for pedestrians and cyclists, with already visible results

Entrepreneurs envision a “mobility hub” that can save you a spot, help with dinner reservations and offer a place to plug in an E.V. Yes, apps are involved.

Op-ed: The severe impact of highways and pavements on the health of land, water, and people are giving us a reason to adopt a new way of thinking.

Cities' declining dependence on cars and commutes may point to a novel solution for the lack of affordable housing in cities, writes The Traffic Group's Wes Guckert.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...

The city of Edina is looking to update its off-street parking regulations, which have remained unchanged for decades.

From DDOT: "he District Department of Transportation (DDOT) launched ParkDC Permits, a new, centralized system for DC residents in Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Zones and their visitors to manage visitor, temporary, home health aide, and contractor parking permits via a single online portal.

Leaders across Wellington arts, culture and hospitality sectors are all in agreement the council has its planned parking changes wrong.

"I saw a police officer standing next to my car.... [He] mentioned someone called the police when they saw me get out of my car with my family."

Eager to accelerate the public transition to electric vehicles, the City Council signed a deal last week with Tesla, allowing the company to install 19 vehicle chargers at the city-owned garage on Bryant Street.

Beachgoers behind the wheel were forced to shell out $30 over the Fourth of July weekend to park their vehicles near any lakefront parks. That’s about

It’s in the public interest for cities to convert the parking lanes of their major streets to outdoor seating, with chairs and tables. On the commercial avenue of the modern city, land use at…

Where are the accessible EVs?

THE REMARKABLE RESILIENCE of bus ridership through even the worst months of the pandemic has underscored the critical importance of this surface transportation mode to provide access to jobs and opportunities, especially for those not privileged to be able to work from home. Buses disproportionately carry low-income, essential workers who tend to have inflexible work(...)

The rules of restaurant spaces are up for grabs as the city’s Department of Transportation looks to the future of street and sidewalk seating.

An opportunity to get more out of our streets and neighborhoods

The decision came after months of debate about how to regulate a hotel or a big box store that might want to locate downtown.