Parking
Did Progressive Parking Policies Propel Pittsburgh Past Detroit?
This parking map of downtown Detroit has been making the rounds, following news of the city's bankruptcy. It's a striking image: Close to 40 percent of downtown Detroit's develop-able land is parking, local experts say.
August 23, 2013
Why Is St. Louis Using Tax Money to Subsidize Parking Lots and Bars?
Tax increment financing is a pretty neat tool cities can use to finance quality-of-life amenities, like the Beltline in Atlanta, or the streetcar in Kansas City, by capturing the taxes from the property value increases of the investments.
August 15, 2013
Parking vs. Everything Else: An Aerial Map of Downtown Detroit
The above map, produced by Data Driven Detroit, comes to us though the satirical Facebook page Michigan Needs More Parking. It shows downtown Detroit with parking highlighted in orange and red: garages in orange, surface lots in red.
August 14, 2013
Might Atlanta Tax Parking to Fund Transit?
Last summer, voters from a 10-county region in and around Atlanta shot down a large package of transportation projects, including some major urban transit projects.
August 12, 2013
Measuring the Shift Away From Car Ownership, City By City
A new analysis by Michael Andersen at Bike Portland helps illuminate how shifts in car ownership are playing out in different cities.
July 31, 2013
Visualizing America’s Absurd Parking Requirements
Architect Seth Goodman is on a mission to illustrate the absurdity of parking requirements. The above image, showing mandatory parking requirements for office buildings in different American cities, is one of three infographics he created to show the extent to which American cities mandate the construction of parking.
May 22, 2013
How Denver Repaired Its Epic Parking Crater
The above photo is downtown Denver in 1976.
May 13, 2013
Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT
This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, and part two profiled Stanford's TDM programs.
April 18, 2013
Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks
This is the second installment in Streetsblog's series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ. This post looks at how Stanford University has used TDM to reduce driving and realize huge savings in the process.
April 17, 2013