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Parking Madness 2014: Send Us Your Pics of Awful Parking Craters
It's March, which can only mean one thing: Parking Madness time. Last year we asked our readers to help us crown the worst parking crater in an American city, and in that inaugural 16-entry bracket, Tulsa blew away the competition. But we know there are still plenty of other parking lots out there that make downtown look like a lunar landscape, so here comes the sequel.
March 10, 2014
Level the Commuter Playing Field By Reducing the Tax Break for Parking
Happy New Year, transit riders! Congress has a special present: Some of you will be getting a tax increase this year.
January 2, 2014
How Parking Requirements Help Walmart and Hurt Small Businesses
On Black Friday, Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns asked his Twitter followers to take pictures of parking lots on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The evidence they returned was pretty damning: Retailers like Walmart, Kohl's, and Target -- some compelled by mandatory parking minimums -- provide way more parking than shoppers will ever demand. Marohn collected 70 pictures of wasted asphalt on this big shopping day.
December 2, 2013
WSJ Invites More Ignorant Anti-Bike Zealots to Sully Its Pages
Law professor Frank H. Buckley seems to want to be the next Dororthy Rabinowitz. That is, he wants to gain notoriety by clinging to old and unsafe street designs while, simultaneously, shoring up the Wall Street Journal's reputation as a bastion of change-averse curmudgeons. Done and done.
November 11, 2013
Spot-Less: Why Parking Quotas Could Wither Away
This post is the 17th and final post in the series: Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of the Sightline Institute.
October 22, 2013
Parking Break: What Cities Gain When They Lose Parking Quotas
This is the season climax, the culmination, the big reveal.
October 16, 2013
Curb Appeal
Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots!
October 4, 2013
Will “Parking Madness” Champion Tulsa Punt on Reforms?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is Streetsblog's reigning "Parking Madness" champion -- earlier this year readers said its downtown was scarred by the worst parking crater in America. It seemed at the time like Tulsa was going to take action to mend its downtown, but recent news has not been so encouraging. Will Tulsa enact a new surface parking moratorium or continue bulldozing the city to make way for surface parking? It could all rest with an upcoming City Council decision.
September 30, 2013
There’s a (Parking) Place for Us
This post is #14 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline.
September 27, 2013
Park(ing) Day 2013: DC Edition
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 spaces normally reserved for car storage. They're a real-life illustration of how much more vibrant our cities could be if we let people take up street space instead of cars.
September 20, 2013