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Seeking Submissions: The Worst Parking Crater in an American Downtown
Alright, Streetsblog readers. Send us your best shots.
March 5, 2013
The Brilliant, Satirical Campaign for More Parking in Michigan
They call their mission "The Cause." And they say it's critical to solving Michigan's woes. Fortunately, though, the solution they have in mind is a simple one, and their name should make it obvious: "Michigan Needs More Parking."
January 18, 2013
Will Massachusetts Tax Parking Lots to Fund Transit?
Here's a transportation funding idea that aligns incentives nicely: taxing parking lots to pay for transit.
January 11, 2013
Shoup: Free Parking to Blame for California’s Solo Car Commuting Habit
Nonprofit reporting group California Watch recently looked at how Californians travel to work and concluded that free parking provided by the state's employers is leading to a lot of street-clogging solo car commuting.
November 13, 2012
Park(ing) Day Around the U.S.
It's International Park(ing) Day, when people all over the world transform their cities' most dead boring places -- parking spaces -- into temporary, creative community gathering places. We hope you got a chance to play, relax or socialize in a temporary park in your city today. But even if you didn't, you can enjoy them vicariously through these pictures of the creative people doing creative things in cities throughout the U.S. today.
September 21, 2012
USA Today: Homebuilders Pass On Garages, Build Front Porches
USA Today reported today that more and more homes are being built without garages or carports. That stands to reason, as developers are (belatedly) building what the market wants: denser housing in walkable urban centers near transit. Copious parking and driveway curb cuts simply don't mesh with that model.
September 19, 2012
Detroit’s Choice: Beautiful Historic Buildings or More Parking
Let's just get this out of the way right now: Sigh. Okay then, on to the story. A Canadian developer wants to tear down this building, the State Savings Bank, to make room for more parking in downtown Detroit.
August 29, 2012
Portland’s Parking-Free Apartment Boom
Portland is undergoing a bit of a building boom. According to local planners, about 40 apartment projects have come online in the last year and a half. Here's the best part: More than half of those apartment projects have no parking -- for cars anyway.
August 21, 2012
Seattle Restaurants See More Revenue After Parking Rates Increase
Parking reformers, this is one you're going to want to bookmark.
April 2, 2012
Instead of Reclaiming a Despised Highway, New Haven Plans a Close Replica
The "most defacing scar from the 1960's Urban Renewal era" -- that's how local advocates describe the Route 34 Expressway through downtown New Haven. Just about a year and a half ago, this small New England city won a TIGER grant to heal that scar. But another disfiguration may be growing in its place.
March 26, 2012