Parking
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How Shared Parking Can Reduce Housing Costs and Cut Traffic
To reduce the amount of parking in new construction, Seattle is looking to make more efficient use of existing parking.
October 6, 2017
Hooray for Placard Fraud Busts — Now When Will de Blasio Address the Real Problem?
Much more common than a detailed forgery are parking violations committed with real placards, or the use of informal signifiers of authority to scare away enforcement agents.
October 4, 2017
Placard Abusers Gravitate to Upgraded Inwood Crosswalk as Soon as the Stripes Are Dry
This is just one example of how placards directly undermine DOT's street safety projects, which often rely on low-cost methods, like striping, that are easily circumvented by placard holders.
October 3, 2017
The Restoration of NYC Principal Parking Perks Reveals the Warped Priorities of Placard Culture
In a pair of Bloomberg-era decisions, an arbitrator and a judge agreed that school administrators were entitled to free parking on the job, and said taking transit to work was a hardship for DOE employees.
September 28, 2017
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Doesn’t Have the Courage to Manage the City’s Parking
Walsh seems to have reached a conclusion without fairly assessing the program and trying to make it work.
September 19, 2017
City Hall Says It Will Release Records on New Teacher Parking Placards … After the Election
The public won’t know what prompted de Blasio to restore teacher parking perks until the general election is in the mayor’s rear view mirror.
September 11, 2017
Queensbridge Park Greenway Path Looking Great — Except for the Illegal Parking
Earlier this week, new pavement and bike lane markings went down on the path connecting the western Queens waterfront to Queens Plaza. The path is still cluttered with illegally parked cars, but that's about to change, according to DOT.
August 3, 2017
If Americans Paid for the Parking We Consume, We’d Drive 500 Billion Fewer Miles Each Year
Most parking spots might cost you nothing, but parking is never really free. We just pay for it in ways that are completely divorced from our actual consumption of parking.
July 27, 2017
It’s Official: Mexico City Eliminates Mandatory Parking Minimums
The largest city in North America has done away with one of the biggest hidden subsidies for driving: minimum parking requirements. The new regulations will make housing more affordable, transit more convenient, and streets less congested.
July 19, 2017
Will Philadelphia Go Backward on Parking Requirements and Housing Affordability?
In many American cities, free on-street parking remains more abundant than affordable housing. Despite the housing crunch spreading to more urban areas, the politics of parking threatens to keep it that way.
July 14, 2017
