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Free Parking Is a Terrible Investment for Transit Agencies
Does it make sense for cash-strapped transit agencies to spend millions of dollars on park-and-ride facilities and then give those parking spaces away for free?
January 15, 2016
Congress Expected to Level Tax Benefit for Transit and Car Commuters
A federal policy that has encouraged Americans to drive to work instead of taking the bus or the train won't tilt the playing field toward car commuters so much.
December 16, 2015
A Vote for Parking Minimums Is a Vote to Keep the Rent Too Damn High
Jimmy McMillan may have retired from politics last week, but the rent is still too damn high and New York City's mandatory parking minimums are a major reason why.
December 16, 2015
18.6 Million Spaces and Still Rising: Study Puts L.A. Parking in Perspective
There is a fascinating new L.A. County parking study making the rounds. Metro's The Source summarizes it stating, "Look around and there’s an awful lot of space devoted to parking and a lot of it is under-used a lot of the time." Curbed incorporates GIFs showing the inexorable growth of L.A. parking, and leads with the statistic that parking constitutes 14 percent of incorporated L.A. land.
December 2, 2015
Variable-Priced L.A. Express Park Expands to Westwood
At a press event yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilmember Paul Koretz celebrated the expansion of L.A. Express Park to Westwood.
November 6, 2015
Funds for San Diego “Park” Go Mostly to Free Parking for County Employees
Nobody's going to give San Diego County an award for park planning -- we hope! -- on its "Waterfront Park project," which is more accurately described as the "subsidized garage project."
November 5, 2015
Parking Reforms Advanced By L.A. City Council Transportation Committee
As expected, a suite of far-ranging parking reforms was heard by the Los Angeles City Council's Transportation Committee yesterday. The committee was broadly receptive to the reforms, directing the city's Transportation Department (LADOT) and other departments to further investigate a number of key reforms. What was perhaps most revealing was individual city councilmember attention to specific parking issues.
October 30, 2015
The Top 5 Times S.F. Mayor Lee “Traded Safety for Convenience”
Mayor Ed Lee says he'll veto the Bike Yield Law because he's "not willing to trade away safety for convenience."
September 30, 2015
How Portland (Maine) Pairs Car-Share With Parking Reform
Is your city skittish about reducing parking minimums? Here's one way to ease people into the idea that new buildings shouldn't be forced to include lots of parking along with housing, and it comes from Portland -- Maine.
September 29, 2015
Park(ing) Day Scenes From Coast to Coast
Today is a very fun day in cities around the U.S., when advocates for better public spaces unleash their imaginations on the dreary places where we normally store cars. Park(ing) Day is "an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks," according to its organizers.
September 21, 2015