Why Would Portland Expand an Old Town Public Parking Garage When It’s Trying to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

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Streets for All Announces L.A. 25×25 Challenge to Re-Allocate Public Space for People
L.A. 25×25 pushes to give 25 percent of street space back to the people by 2025 – expanding Slow Streets, outdoor dining, plazas, green space, bus shelters, tree planting, pedestrian spa…
SPD und Grüne wollen jeden vierten Parkplatz in Berlin-Mitte umwandeln
Grüne und SPD wollen in Berlin-Mitte jeden vierten Parkplatz umwidmen. Ein Entwurf für die Zählergemeinschaft der beiden Parteien beschreibt, wie die Straßen des Bezirks grüner, und die Kreuzungen sicherer werden sollen.
Beer gardens and ghost kitchens: the startup changing the face of car parks
A startup called Reef wants to un-clog city streets and deliver food to your door via robot
Officials claim a new Stamford parking garage is good news for walkers and bikers. Urbanists disagree
While city and state officials celebrate the garage as a win for the city, urban planning...
Stamford's soon-to-be $81.7M, 928-spot commuter garage project gets official debut
After years of debate and more than five years after an initial deal fell through,...
How to end the American obsession with driving
To fight climate change, cities need to be designed with much more walking, biking, and public transit use in mind.
Can Churches Help to Ease the Affordable-Housing Shortage?
Houses of worship own billions worth of empty, deteriorating or underused real estate. Some local governments and denominations are moving to carve it into badly needed housing, but there are plenty of obstacles.
Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm
By John Bela, ASLA On a clear fall day in 2005, a group of friends and collaborators from the art collective Rebar commandeered an 8-foot-wide by 20-foot-long metered parking space in downtown San …
Developers Offer Mobility Services to Lure Car-Free Renters
Residents of Culdesac Tempe, a no-cars-allowed development in Arizona, will receive a bundle of discounted mobility services when the first units open in 2022.
Metro Transit expands pilot including transit passes with apartment dwellers' rent
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Will SB 9 and SB 10 Make Any Difference?
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It’s time for Chicago to rid itself of the parasitic parking meter contract
While it’s possible to cope with the horrible parking deal through design and policy, we really need to abolish it altogether.
Germany: parking row brews as Green mayor plans to increase fees by 600%
Controversial proposals for Tübingen are an attempt to deter car use in the city, with larger vehicles paying the most
Biden’s ‘Heat Island’ Strategy Ignores Cars
President Biden says he’s taking action to cool deadly urban heat islands, but it’s not enough because … cars.
Can building design reduce opposition to housing density?
A new study found several design tweaks that made suburban residents more likely to accept denser development — to a point.
What Would Our Cities Look Like If AVs Ruled the Roads?
Autonomous vehicles could unleash a second wave of suburban sprawl that makes cities inhospitable to people outside cars in new ways — unless governments adopt policies to soften their impact now, …
SFO Gets Environmental Award for “Transit” Project that Prioritizes Driving
San Francisco’s airport received a “Gold” certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council late last week for e…
Pittsburgh officials amenable to 'significant' parking requirements changes
The Pittsburgh Planning Commission approved a measure to reduce the number of parking spaces required for restaurants.
Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm
By early 2020, San Francisco had created 70 parklets in every corner of the city, and the city’s parklet program had become a model around the world.
Using valuable inner-city land for car parking? In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up
A single open-air car park takes up land that could potentially house hundreds of people.
On the value of public space - Parking Reform Network
PRN board member Mike Kwan reflects on his Parking Day, what he learned about his community and what is sacrificed for cars
Does Arizona’s Parking-Free “Culdesac” Have a Future?
Culdesac’s marketing department wrote in an email that their refusal to build parking helped shave possibly $60/month off rents
City Council considers making "streateries" permanent in Philadelphia
City Council is considering making the Covid-outdoor dining scene permanent in Philly. That’s great news for local businesses.
How Will Self-Driving Cars Change the Way We Live?
After a few years of radio silence, autonomous vehicles are in the news again. Here is a review of how we thought they might change the world.
Vancouver’s parking permit proposal faces mixed reactions as it heads into vote
Vancouver city councillors say they’re seeing unusually strong and negative public reaction to the proposal to require parking permits for residential parking on any street in the city
Tradable parking permits as a transportation demand management strategy: A behavioural investigation
Tradable parking permit schemes can be an effective transportation demand management strategy for cities where cars are viewed as a status symbol and …
The geography of carfree households in the United States
A map of the United States by census tract suggests that–except in a few remote and nearly roadless parts of Alaska–few households are carfree: In fact, a closer look reveals a differen…
Car-free futures: How European cities are experimenting with green transport | Euronews
From 5mph streets to 15-minute neighbourhoods, how are different cities giving cars the boot?
Opinion: What streeteries can teach us about reclaiming public space for people
The pandemic forced cities to rewrite the rules of the road and engage residents in the process.