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The city’s new rules repeal minimum parking requirements for most of Somerville and allow backyard cottages—including tiny homes—among myriad other changes.

A newly-passed overhaul of Somerville’s zoning laws will eliminate requirements for off-street parking across most of the city.

Step one: creating a Memorandum of Understanding between BART and Berkeley so they can work together. The MOU will guide Berkeley’s accelerated rezoning of these two parcels.

Airports serve as handy case studies for what happens when the cars show up, and how to beat them back again.

Curb space is the Wild West of neighborhood transportation.

In cities like New York, Paris, Rotterdam, and soon San Francisco, car-free streets are emerging amid a growing movement.

City Council has approved changes to Portland’s zoning code that will require developers of larger buildings — as well as those making major renovations — to carve out space for bicycles.

Sometime last month a Chrysler Pacifica picked up a passenger who’d requested a ride. Unlike a normal ride share car, nobody was behind this one’s wheel.

in Miami's Little Havana, developer Andrew Frey sidesteps the temptation to go tall in urban infill, opting instead to create new residential buildings that fit the context of their historic neighborhoods.

San Francisco is struggling with a herculean task: creating as much housing as possible to make up for decades of underproduction. But the enormous cost of building in the city has meant developers can’t create nearly enough affordable or market-rate homes.

Glendale City Council members introduced a temporary emergency ordinance that will allow the city to enforce some of its ADU regulations — including maximum unit sizes — even as several state housing laws going into effect Jan. 1 will supersede or negate many others.

On a brisk Saturday morning in November, a group of two dozen cyclists pauses in front of a four-story apartment complex in East Austin. The Terrace at Oak Springs, run by the nonprofit Integral Care, opened in September to provide …

Climate change, parking reform tops list for multiple groups

Luxury parking fees popping up in major U.S. cities could be indicative of a downturn in garage utilization in coming decades.

Montgomery County Councilmember Evan Glass (D-At Large) wants to make Ride On bus service free during every county-observed holiday. Glass— a Silver Spring resident, and ardent public transportation advocate —announced the concept on Twitter Tuesday. It came in direct response to a tweet from Montgomery County's Department of Transportation. "In observance of New Year's Day, Public Parking is free on Wednesday, January 1. Includes on-street meters, lots and garages," MCDOT's tweet stated.

Waiting for car manufacturers and ride-hail operators to decide the future of urban AV deployment will not create the cities that urban planners hope for, and often work very hard to make happen. While significant penetration of AVs — private or shared — is likely a decade or two away, deferring directional, optimization, and livability strategies will rob cities of flexibility, influence, and degrees of freedom within a decade. If you believe AVs are coming eventually, the time to start getting ready is now, even if you believe human drivers will remain dominant for many decades. The steps...

As more suburbanites move downtown, developers are seeking new land for housing and offices, creating opportunities for owners of empty parking lots.

Some day in the not-so-distant future, transit experts predict, Buffalo commuters will whiz to work in driverless cars that steer and park t

Here’s what Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois should do if we really care about saving the planet from climate change.

Some advocates say providing RV dwellers with a safe space would be beneficial. Others warn it would just pour limited resources into another stop-gap housing measure instead of focusing on building permanent homes.

Eliminating free street parking is good for the environment, and good for the city, argues 2nd Ave. Sagas’ Benjamin Kabak

An apartment development with no parking for its expected 1,000 residents is going up across from a light rail station in Tempe.

“WE HAVE MET the enemy and he is us.” That well-worn 1960s line from the Pogo comic strip could easily be deployed to describe the situation of Boston-area employers who are reaching the end of their rope over the never-ending woes of regional traffic gridlock. Get the Daily Download Our news roundup delivered every weekday.Email*(...)

Understanding how much traffic is caused by cruising for curb parking is important because new demands are overloading the curb.

Luc Rabouin, the new Projet Montréal mayor of the borough, announced his intention to raise the permit prices for vehicles that produce more emissions at a council meeting earlier this month.

From imposing a tax on paid parking facilities to putting an end to distracted driving—Bostonians dish on how to fix the city's relentless traffic.

Congestion pricing could fund free transit, according to LA Metro CEO Phil Washington, which he said is a "lofty goal," but still a beneficial one to pursue.

New Analysis by DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Development Models the Social Benefit of Booking Apps Like SpotHero

Car culture has already been changed by bike and bus lanes. A transportation panel in Manhattan has floated the idea of eliminating free street parking entirely.