Parking

The idea is to make development cheaper and encourage people to use greener modes of transport—but will that be the case?

Bar Harbor netted more than $1.5 million in its first season charging for downtown parking, three times the amount town officials said they expected from parking fees, fines and permits.

Santa Monica has 700 extra parking, as in available parking spaces no longer needed. The cost is the opportunity cost of squandering such a valuable resource.

Manhattanites worry about losing parking thanks to congestion pricing, but are those fears founded?

Santa Monica has long strived to be one of the most walkable places in Southern California.

For many Brooklynites, the destruction of Admiral’s Row and its extensive woodlands represents a tragic loss

Downtown L.A. follows Lancaster, Santa Monica, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, and Cincinnati in eliminating unneeded parking requirements.

City officials want to revamp parking regulations for houses of worship and other site geared toward public assembly to facilitate more home construction. The changes have been pushed by a group of housing activists calling themselves YIGBY, for "Yes in God's Backyard."

We all need a place to live in. For many families, housing remains one of the biggest, and most critical, monthly expenses, one that has an impact on everything from their health to their children’s education. Cities must ensure that residents have access to housing that is both affordable, well-maintained, and has good access to jobs and services. This is the one policy that policymakers should make a priority to get it right.

Chicago has built a significant percentage of its city budget off of fines and fees. City leaders are now saying that isn’t fair.

Uber and Lyft traffic jams are creating misery for departing passengers at LAX and elsewhere. But there is reason for hope.

New York City parking garage operators are under stress

Travelers leaving LAX are now required to board a shuttle or walk to a waiting area east of Terminal 1 to call a car.

Here’s why Tesla’s “Smart Summon” feature is taking them on anyway.

To alleviate many parking-related externalities, several rapidly growing cities globally are optimizing parking through “smart-parking” programs, invo…

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a five-story, 56-unit apartment building on what is now a vacant lot at 1970 Dorchester Ave., next to the Ashmont Red Line station. Read more.

Residents have complained that commuters using Caltrain have taken advantage of their streets for free parking.

Northstar California Resort’s recent announcement that they plan to charge for parking at the resort was met so much criticism from patrons that the resort has had to respond to those complai…

Cities significantly underprice their roads and parking facilities, forcing local taxpayers to subsidize out-of-town motorists. Municipal officials have an obligation to better manage these valuable

In light of the Downtown Memphis' Commission's review of downtown parking and ways to make it more effective and efficient, we are posting a commentary by retired UCLA economist Don Shoup, whose 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is considered the definitive authority on the subject. His recent book, Parking and the City, follows up: At the dawn of the automobile age, suppose Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller had asked how city planners could increase the demand for cars and gasoline. Consider three options. First, divide the city into separate zones (housing here, jobs there, shopp...

A new study in Toronto supports what other cities have found: trading street parking for a bike lane doesn’t hurt the local economy, and…

Nine curbside locations around the District will be available to reserve for commercial deliveries starting August 1, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) recently announced. The three-month pilot gives a company called curbFlow authority to manage the zones.