Parking

OMAHA: Infrastructure updates stretching from the Old Market to Blackstone will change the city's parking infrastructure, starting in the next few months: lower initial rates, no more time limits, and changes to parking garages. Park Omaha says its most notable change is lowering initial street parking meters to $1 for the first two to three hours. The rate will progressively increase the longer a vehicle stays parked, eliminating time restrictions.

Car storage has eaten up big chunks of many cities. Some of those cities are starting to wise up.

The city is adding pay stations to two more lots. The price to park is also going up in May.

Alderman Cara Spencer, of Marine Villa, denounced the decision, reprising criticism she previously hurled at Mayor Tishaura O. Jones when they both ran for mayor two years ago.

LACONIA — After a three-month period calling for expressions of interest on the future of the downtown parking garage, the city has received no responses. Discussions about what to do with the garage have been bouncing around city government for years. Meanwhile, the cost to maintain and restore the structure have grown. A private option was a hoped-for relief for city leadership grappling with both their desire to fix an eyesore at the entrance to a revitalized Main Street and their discomfort to yoke taxpayers onto a now eight-figure project.

In "Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It," Daniel Knowles says a lot about how cars make life worse, and not enough about what to do about it.

Brainerd Planning Commission takes up conversation

On-street parking rates in Seattle will increase up to $1 per hour starting Monday as SDOT aims to open up more parking spaces in the busiest parts of the city.

The Royals have brought back their Fountain Pass option, which will let fans attend every home game this season for $39.99 a month. It’s a great deal for fans, but some have held off buying the pass because they’d have to pay for parking each time they go to the K.

It’s long past time for the city to rein in cops and other public servants who believe parking laws and tolls don’t apply to them.

Back in 2018, there was uproar when a 6-story storage facility was planned on the site of a surface parking lot at 1314 Spring Garden Street. With a ton of momentum happening in the area – multiple mixed-use and multifamily development planned nearby – a storage facility just didn’t seem to make sense. If you Read more about 149-Unit Building to Replace Parking Lot at 13th and Spring Garden[…]

Few cities' central corridors uses less space for parking than San Francisco.

For nearly half a year, this small business owner has been ready to open his coffee shop…but the city is refusing to let him do so, all because of antiquated parking mandates.

As Dallas examines its land use plan, it's time to talk about parking lots.

Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."

Maps show just how much space parking occupies in 50 city centers.

An economist who spent decades studying ’megaprojects’ has some advice for getting them right: Think slow, act fast and build brick by tiny plastic brick.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The city reported zero pedestrian deaths on its streets in 2022. Planner Mike Lydon tells us how they did it.

Exclusive: number of motor vehicles in 46 low-traffic neighbourhoods studied also significantly reduced

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…

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).

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.