Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Parks

In Tenth Year of Park(ing) Day, Parklets Bloom on Six Continents

By Payton Chung | Sep 19, 2014 | 2 Comments

Cities on six continents are celebrating Park(ing) Day today, now in its tenth year of temporarily transforming curbside space for cars into public spaces for people. Some of the pop-up parks that caught our eye this Park(ing) Day include: Providence pulled out all of the stops this year, with 32 parklets — and a pop-up protected […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a […]

A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown. The LA Times reported this week that Long Beach officials are studying the possibility of replacing […]

Gridlock Everywhere: Congressional Impasse Shuts Down DC’s Trails

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2013 | 19 Comments

Washington, DC’s bicycle commuters woke up this morning to find that one popular rail-trail was closed due to the government shutdown, which took effect at midnight. The Capital Crescent Trail is the most heavily-used rail-trail in the United States, with more than a million users a year. Not just a weekend pleasure-ride spot, the CCT […]

Park(ing) Day 2013: DC Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 20, 2013

There’s only one reason to be inside on a beautiful day like today, and that is to upload pictures of this beautiful day. More to the point, it’s Park(ing) Day, a celebration of better uses for on-street parking spaces. All over this city, and in cities around the country, temporary parklets have sprung up in […]

Park(ing) Day Scenes From Around the United States

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2013 | 16 Comments

It was only eight years ago that the international movement known as Park(ing) Day got started (in San Francisco or New York, depending on whom you ask). In a short time, this fun way to demonstrate the squandered potential of ordinary parking spaces has become a global phenomenon. Today, in cities across the United States […]

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