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New York City can use our 32,000 acres of roadway to prevent flooding and adapt to climate change, support transportation alternatives and better goods movement, and expand access to economic opportunity. Here's how.

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Plan would create the equivalent space of 13 Central Parks to be used for 500 miles of dedicated bus lanes and 500 miles of protected bike lanes

Assemblymember Alex Lee’s AB 2206 would fix gaping loopholes in current “parking cash-out” law.

Despite claims that lowering speed limits will harm the economy, evidence suggests journey times are hardly affected. And beyond reducing the road toll, there are health and climate benefits, too.

"I'm certainly interested in having the conversation to see what the possibilities are," Johnson said Monday.

The move is a sizeable shift away from prioritizing space for vehicles in Nashville's zoning code, potentially freeing up land for uses like housing.

Circling endlessly for a car park and sitting in traffic every day are brutal taxes of a different kind.

Honoring Donald Shoup

If our goal is to build abundant and affordable housing, then we must align our policies to encourage neighborhoods where people can live without a car if they choose to.

Sledge’s bill would limit how much parking new developments can provide

The company once claimed that ride-hail services and robotaxis would make personal cars obsolete. Mounting losses have prompted a rethink.

Cars? In this economy? Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.

Minimum off-street parking requirements have created a host of problems, leading cities and states to rethink this policy. The wave of reform is just beginning, because the oversupply from a century of misguided parking policy is likely to persist.

Why other rich nations have surpassed the U.S. in protecting pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.

In 2018, Milan launched its Open Squares initiative, using paint and planters, benches and ping-pong tables to reclaim public space.

Progressives and conservatives find common ground on easing regulations on housing and business development.

State and local governments are rethinking land use policy to cut emissions and improve social outcomes.

As the effects of climate change begin to worsen, replacing heat-absorbing pavement with new trees can help make a difference toward expanding our urban canopy when space is limited.

Parking mandates are an obstacle to sustainable communities: remove them and more apartments will be built at the expense of space for cars. But we need to do more.

It was a moment of rare unanimity on the Anchorage Assembly: By a 12-0 vote, the Assembly repealed minimum parking mandates, meaning that new construction in much of Anchorage will not have to provide a specific number of parking places. The ordinance was sponsored by conservative Kevin Cross, and liberals Daniel Volland and Forrest Dunbar. […]

Anchorage is the latest city to enact sweeping parking reforms, in another blow to the car-centric status quo of planning.

Nashville is the latest city to enact a substantive change to the parking requirements set by the city’s zoning code—doing away with parking minimums and setting parking maximums in the city’s Urban Zoning Overlay.