Parking
Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker Bankrolls Free Parking Ballot Initiative in SF
Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee's mayoral campaign in 2011.
July 15, 2014
Re-imagining Parking Spaces as Micro-Apartments
Can parking spaces get a second life? A student project in Atlanta helps demonstrate the possibilities in every stall.
July 14, 2014
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
Who Will Preserve Our Nation’s Urban Parking Lots?
A historic preservation group in Cincinnati put together the above video, meant to make us think critically about some of the most fiercely guarded yet least loved places in our cities: parking lots.
June 30, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Rondo Revisited
Finally, there is a light rail line connecting the Twin Cities. The Green Line, running 11 miles from Union Depot in downtown St. Paul to Target Field in downtown Minneapolis, cost $957 million and took decades to build. The process of choosing stations was contentious but eventually incorporated the proposals of low-income communities that wanted them, and the line is already being held up as a model. It's not the fastest way between the two downtowns, but it might be the best way. Jeff and I discuss.
June 20, 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
Tulsa’s First Open Streets Event Reimagines Notorious Parking Crater
Typically, no one goes to the southern end of downtown Tulsa to socialize. This part of town has been so overrun with parking lots that Streetsblog readers crowned it the worst "parking crater" in the country in our first Parking Madness competition last year.
May 6, 2014
How Hartford’s Bet on Cars Set the Stage for Population Loss and Segregation
Hartford, Connecticut, has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. The urban renaissance that has visited so many cities hasn’t arrived there. Housing is still cheaper in the city than in the suburbs, and although suburban poverty is growing alarmingly fast, it’s nowhere near the levels seen in the city.
April 17, 2014