Parking

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.

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.

These groups teach members how to fight for safer streets.

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

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

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…

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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"

Arlington's Parking team is preparing to launch a 3-year pilot project to learn more about how we can make metered parking in our two Metro-rail corridors work better for businesses, customers, residents, and workers. As the team prepares to deploy new technology to measure demand for parking, come learn more about the Pilot Project and share your input on the project goals with our team.

Housing construction on what used to be a University of Utah parking lot has some students upset with the lack of parking. In the end, different Utah cities and schools have a variation of the problem.

Mike Salisbury, transportation energy lead in the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency, explains what inspired the program and how the local government adapted to a huge public response.

More than 380 loading zones in Oakland will be turned into smart zones, allowing for commercial fleets — like parcel and other deliveries — to seamlessly park and pay by the minute.

Pedestrianizing America’s main street, Pennsylvania Avenue, would be the ultimate demonstration for the District, the nation, and the world that driving is not essential for a desirable, thriving neighborhood.

If the EV transition focuses exclusively on drivers in privately owned cars, it won’t meet many Americans’ mobility needs, particularly in underserved communities.

The changes to parking space standards have not kept up with the explosion in vehicle sizes.