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Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing Clears Community Board 7
The vote means that several hundred car storage slots on West 108th Street will almost certainly give way to hundreds of subsidized apartments.
December 6, 2017
If de Blasio Was Serious About Ending Placard Abuse, This Serial Parking Violator Would Have Stopped By Now
A placard abuser can be publicly shamed into abandoning an illegal parking spot, but the same vehicle owner will keep using the perk illegally somewhere else. Without real enforcement and a reduction in placards, it's just whack-a-mole.
December 4, 2017
CB 7 Committees Endorse Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing
The project would demolish two garages with 675 parking spaces to make room for about 200 additional subsidized housing units.
November 22, 2017
Bus Lanes Are the New Parking Lanes
American cities are getting smarter about using curb space to prioritize transit, biking, and walking.
November 21, 2017
Spokane May Give Builders a Push to Fix Downtown Parking Craters
City leaders have proposed a tax break for new construction on downtown surface parking lots.
November 14, 2017
Car Storage Clashes Against Affordable Housing on the Upper West Side
Which do New Yorkers value more: parking garages to store cars or apartments to house neighbors? Rarely is the question framed as starkly as with the plan to demolish two city-owned parking garages and build 304 units of subsidized housing on 108th Street.
October 31, 2017
How Philadelphia Fixed Parking Craters Using Tax Policy
Using tax incentives and a dash of zoning, Philadelphia set off a virtuous cycle, reducing dependence on cars.
October 30, 2017
NYC Cedes Newly Upgraded Inwood Crosswalk to Placard-Abusing City Employees
The situation at the Inwood crosswalk shows how the placard system is directly at odds with DOT safety projects.
October 18, 2017
CB 12 Member Tries to Derail Washington Heights Plaza to Preserve Parking
A board member looking to stoke outrage over a proposed public plaza at a health care campus says the 70 percent of car-free households in the district don't have a stake in how the street is used, since they don't need parking.
October 11, 2017
Podcast: Subsidizing Congestion With Commuter Tax Benefits
This week we’re joined by Tony Dutzik of the Frontier Group and Steven Higashide of TransitCenter to discuss their new report, "Who Pays for Parking?" - an incisive critique of federal commuter tax benefits.
October 9, 2017
