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San Francisco Reboots Program That Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets
San Francisco agencies have re-introduced the Transportation Sustainability Program, a bureaucratic overhaul that could dramatically expedite improvements for walking, biking, and transit, while discouraging car parking in new developments.
June 4, 2015
Where Parking Is Tight, People Find Solutions
UCLA Professor, now Emeritus, Donald Shoup thinks about the ways people find to get around parking limitations—and some of the ramifications of their behavior—in the latest issue of Access magazine from the University of California.
June 3, 2015
Phil Matier’s Shameless Bid to Drum Up Resentment About Parking
Phil Matier is apparently perturbed at the "rapid" pace at which SF plans to re-purpose less than 0.5 percent of its curbside parking spaces.
June 2, 2015
How Much of Your Rent Covers the Hidden Cost of Parking?
If you rent an apartment in a building with a garage, odds are you don't get a bill every month that explains how much that parking costs you. But while the price of parking is generally bundled into the price of housing, you still pay for parking -- and it's expensive.
June 2, 2015
Donald Shoup Interview, Part 2: Pasadena, Ventura, Mexico City, A.B. 744
Donald Shoup, parking's one and only rock star, is retiring from UCLA this year. Tomorrow, the college is sending him off with a fundraiser retirement dinner atop parking structure number 32. You can attend, and hobnob with Shoup himself, by donating to the Shoup Fellowship fund for future UCLA planning students.
May 29, 2015
How Freeway Removal and Zero Parking Can Fend Off SF’s Triple Threat
There is an urgent triumvirate of crises looming over San Franciscans. With median rents now exceeding $4,200, hyper-gentrification is tearing lives apart. Except for those surviving on rent control, the city is no longer welcoming to teachers, artists, and the entire middle class. Things are looking difficult in the East Bay, as speculators and realtors spread their tentacles of greed around every BART station.
May 27, 2015
Donald Shoup Interview, Part 1: Adaptive Reuse, Parking Cash-Out, Teaching
Donald Shoup is one of my heroes. He's the authority on parking: how it shapes cities, how it enables driving, and how cities can fix the problems that parking policies create. He has a legion of followers who proudly call themselves Shoupistas. Shoup is retiring from UCLA this year. The college is sending him off with a fundraiser retirement dinner atop parking structure number 32 on Saturday May 30. You can attend, and hobnob with Shoup himself, by donating to the Shoup Fellowship fund for future UCLA planning students.
May 26, 2015
Too Many Cities Make Their Most Valuable Land Worthless
This image of downtown Memphis caught the eye of Charles Marohn at Strong Towns. A parking wasteland topped by a tangle of highway spaghetti, it was taken, perfectly enough, from the Bass Pro Shop that now occupies the top of the Memphis Pyramid.
May 12, 2015
10 Tips for Cities Ready to Replace Car Parking With Safe Space for Biking
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets.
April 15, 2015