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Be Jealous of São Paulo’s Precedent-Setting New Parking Policy
It may not be much consolation after yesterday's World Cup defeat to Germany, but Brazil should feel at least a twinge of national pride over the groundbreaking new parking policies its largest city has adopted.
July 9, 2014
Chin Asks de Blasio to Choose Affordable Housing Over Cheap Parking
Council Member Margaret Chin has set up a simple choice for Mayor Bill de Blasio: Which is the higher priority, affordable housing or cheap parking?
July 8, 2014
The Unintended Consequences of Trimming Alt-Side Parking Hours
I remember alternate side of the street parking. It was 1974, and I was underemployed and living on West 22nd Street. My tiny Renault and I were regular participants in the twice-a-week "slide" that Matt Flegenheimer described in his Monday Times story on Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez’s bill to bar police from ticketing alternate-side-parked cars once the street sweepers have passed.
July 2, 2014
A Handful of Car Spaces, or a 27-Dock Citi Bike Station?
Because a construction site is blocking the sidewalk on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, a Citi Bike station was taken off the sidewalk in mid-April and re-installed along the protected bike lane on the other side of South 11th Street a couple of weeks ago, replacing a handful of parking spaces. The new site was the only space near the Schaefer Landing ferry dock that could accommodate the Citi Bike station within the city's siting guidelines, according to a source familiar with the situation.
July 2, 2014
City Council: Drivers With Free On-Street Parking Have Suffered Enough
It may be the Vision Zero era, but some thingsneverchange. If you're looking for cost-free, consequence-free storage of your private automobile in public space, the City Council still has your back.
June 30, 2014
Proposal to Turn Car Storage Into Human Housing Hits Brooklyn CB6 Tonight
Just a reminder that today at 6 p.m., Brooklyn Community Board 6 will hold a public hearing about the conversion of a 230-car garage on Union Street into a mixed-use building with housing and retail.
June 26, 2014
Titans of Click-Bait: The Park Slope Food Co-op Meets the “War on Cars”
In a rational world, the Park Slope Food Co-op opposing the conversion of an enormous garage into car-free mixed-use development would be as likely as Halliburton sponsoring every bike-share system in the country.
June 13, 2014
There Is Now Scientific Evidence That Parking Makes People Crazy
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. Fifth in a series.
June 6, 2014
How a DOT Parking Rule Change Made NYC Streets Less Safe
I violated a traffic rule on the day I moved to New York City.
June 6, 2014
Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns
Streetsblog's Angie Schmitt popularized the term "parking crater," and she explains it simply: A parking crater is "a depression in the middle of an urban area formed by the absence of buildings."
June 4, 2014