Curbside management in a recurring emergency scenario: A municipal perspective
This post is part of a special series on curb management and COVID-19. A joint effort of IPMI, Transportation for America, and ITE’s Complete Streets Council, this series strives to document the immediate curbside-related actions and responses to COVID-19, as well as create a knowledge base of strategies that communities can use to manage the curbside during future emergencies.
By Chrissy Mancini Nichols As published in ITE’s February issue. Click here to read the magazine and/or article (found on pages 46-49). The first minimum parking requirement was established in 1923 in Columbus, Ohio. By the 1950s, parking minimums had grown to be
In an interview, the guru of progressive parking policy reflects on his decades of research and writing, which transformed how cities look at the curb.
Uber, Lyft and Other Mobility Options are Shaking Up Parking
The 2018 Emerging Trends in Parking report by the International Parking Institute points to a growing need to think of parking facilities as more than just places to park cars.
As Palo Alto considers lowering its parking requirements to spur production of multifamily housing, a newly released study indicates that scores of parking spaces at local apartment buildings currently go unused -- a fact that has some residents crying foul.
Street Privilege: New Histories of Parking and Urban Mobility
By James Longhurst In 1979, a plainclothes police officer assaulted a uniformed parking agent in broad daylight on the steps of the courthouse in lower Manhattan. The New York Times summarized the …
How much is too much for a transit parking garage?
Parking fills up early at stations like Puyallup, but at what price tag should we add more garages? (image: Sound Transit) Several future parking expansions for Sounder South stations are projected…
Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium parking lots are full, and here's why
With Major League Baseball shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, why are the parking lots of some stadiums filled with cars? We have the answer.
Washington, D.C,, could radically transform itself by effectively banning parking on all major streets and anywhere else where it interferes in any way with bus traffic.
Laying off Ace Parking employees felt like 'ripping off limbs to save vital organs'
San Diego firms, from hoteliers and retailers to technology manufacturers, are grappling with how to survive amid evaporating revenues and devastating losses of their employees
SLC halts some parking enforcement during COVID-19 pandemic
Mayor Erin Mendenhall has made another emergency declaration in response to the coronavirus pandemic, waiving parking enforcement in some areas of the city.
Berkeley relaxes parking enforcement rules due to shelter-in-place order
Drivers are set to get some relief from several types of parking rules following this week's regional shelter-in-place order from health officials. Certain rules — like those for street sweeping — are still in effect.
City of Spokane suspends use of parking meters, preventing COVID-19 exposure
The City of Spokane is suspending the use of parking meters and City-operated parking lot payment devices, all to curb the exposure to COVID-19 on meter surfaces.