‘It’s So Hard to Park’: Entitled Drivers Have Been Whining for 100 Years!
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It's time for a walk through history. It was never easy to park, so don't listen to today's whiners.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Donald Shoup
Analysis: The Decline and Fall of Mandatory Parking Minimums
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Was 2021 the year that U.S. planners finally lost faith in minimum parking requirements? It certainly seems so.
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
The Parking Reform Network Comes of Age
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“We’re all here because when we look at a new surface parking lot, or see a lot being dug up for an apartment’s underground garage, we understand these are just the surface expressions of a sinister force." -Parking Reform Network founder Tony Jordan, via Bike Portland's Jonathan Maus
Study: Yes, More Parking Does Put More Cars on the Road
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A new study finds something transportation reformers have long suspected, but never proven.
Opinion: Parking Tech Can Help City Equity
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On an average day, the typical car owner doesn’t give much thought to parking, beyond whether they will luck out and find a spot to park when they reach their destination. And here's why that has to change.