Parking

SUVs and pickups are getting so big that they’re starting to have trouble fitting into some home garages, parking garages and public parking spaces.

Typically, with new development comes new parking spaces. Most Pittsburghers travel by car, and developers assume most of the people visiting their new retail and...

Although Washingtonians love to bike and walk to work, employer benefits are currently set up to give the biggest reward to people who drive. That might soon change.

What if cities and communities rethought parking policy and designed it not only to serve transportation goals but also equity goals? Leading with equity creates better transportation options for all. It also opens up new ways of looking at traditional problems and solutions. This includes the commo

The lawsuit argues replacing a surface parking lot with 100 subsidized apartments would cause them “irreparable injury.”

As Glendale Community College continues plans to construct additional parking on its Garfield campus, residents voice their concerns about affordable housing, traffic and the project's environmental impact.

A Quarterly Column by Jessica Roberts, Alta Planning + Design

The station would become the centerpiece of a walkable “downtown.”

The parking meter was first used in Oklahoma City in the 1930's. Today, meters cost two dollars an hour to park downtown. Recently, a consultant recommended the city raise that price by 50 cents. “I definitely think there are going to be people who will struggle with the change, but again the purpose of this is to create turnover with on-street parking so that you would have the opportunity to get that perfect spot more often," said Michael Scroggins from Embark.

Cities like Chicago are taking a fresh look at how they fine residents.

A traffic study commissioned by the city of Augusta indicates there is enough parking downtown but it is not being used properly.

“Everyone think this is about a money grab, and it’s not,” said Julie Dixon, whose firm is leading the process of implementing the results of a parking study done by another firm. Instead, she said, the proposed changes are about creating a “sustainable” and efficient system.

It’s a trend! Another Manhattan community board has demanded that the DOT figure out how to reallocate curb space so that roadways are not such a chaotic, unsafe mess.

Colorado Springs has extended the time vehicles can remain in metered spaces downtown and in Old Colorado City to up to four hours after 6 p.m..

Mayor London Breed touts longer meter hours, "congestion pricing" as fixes for traffic in spite of driver ire.

In Paris, as in many European cities, the number of cars is declining, which is leaving a vast amount of underground car parks empty. With its start-up project called "La Caverne", Cycloponics is reclaiming these urban territories using them as a way of growing plenty of organic vegetables. EURACTIV France reports.

We spent the time gathering parking data across Montreal -- both on-street and off-street -- and compared it with the vacancy rates on the city’s commercial arteries.

San Francisco's SFPark trial has raised the profile of performance-based pricing for on-street parking (see a video on this at the end of t...

Waste of money. Waste of space.

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Promoting better local parking policy all over the world

Excellent example of handout for parking reform basics. Focused on Chicago.

How obscure parking rules have misshaped our communities and opportunities for better options. [long] Garages and driveways are the primary entrance to this Tigard, OR apartment complex. Photo credit Brett VA. Parking rules buried in city land-use codes have surprisingly pernicious effects. Requirements that builders provide ample quotas of off-street parking spaces worsen traffic, multiply collisions, push up housing prices, dampen business profitability, amplify sprawl, and pollute both air and water. Parking rules are a surprisingly potent hidden force shaping—or misshaping—our communiti...

Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing. What that could mean for cities in Washington and Oregon.

Citizens, however, have until Feb. 22 to tell the IRS to comment---and a mobilization campaign is pushing for Congress to get involved, too.

Equitable mobility requires good transit---not giving free parking to hundreds of car-owning downtown workers in the hope that some of them might be poor.

King County Metro has become a national hero of good transit. On Tuesday, it could take the next step: letting riders pay for parking if they want to.