Special Reports
Parking Madness 2015: Asheville vs. Syracuse
Only two spots remain in the Elite Eight of Streetsblog's Parking Madness bracket. Yesterday, the parking fields by GM headquarters along the Detroit waterfront prevailed over the parking crater around the BART station in Bay Area suburb Walnut Creek.
March 20, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Detroit vs. Walnut Creek
The Parking Madness competition has never been fiercer. In yesterday's match-up, Parkersburg, West Virginia, edged Boston by a slim 12 votes, and before that, Amarillo beat out Nashville by just six votes. Your ballot counts.
March 19, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Boston vs. Parkersburg
Yesterday, in the closest match in Parking Madness history, Amarillo edged out Nashville by just six votes to advance to the round of eight.
March 18, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Nashville vs. Amarillo
We're moving on to the fourth match of Parking Madness 2015, and the competition is getting intense. So far, parking craters in Tampa, Camden, and Newport News have advanced to the Elite Eight.
March 17, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Tampa vs. Waterville, Maine
So far in round one of this year's Parking Madness tourney, the parking crater in downtown Newport News, Virginia, knocked off the surface parking right by L.A.'s North Hollywood metro station, and the parking-scarred waterfront of Camden, New Jersey, beat out downtown Mobile and its carpet of parking lots.
March 16, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Los Angeles vs. Newport News
Another day, another pair of absolutely terrible urban landscapes. Here's the second match-up in the Parking Madness 2015 tournament, following yesterday's drubbing of Mobile by Camden.
March 13, 2015
Parking Madness 2015! First Match: Camden vs. Mobile
Happy Selection Thursday, Streetsblog readers -- our annual Parking Madness tournament kicks off today. Over the next few weeks, these 16 cities and towns will vie for the coveted Golden Crater, awarded to the most horrendous pit of parking to blight an American downtown.
March 12, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Can Your Parking Crater Compete?
March is a special month on Streetsblog. It's the time when the nation's worst downtown parking scars face off head-to-head for the shame of winning the "golden crater" -- and the local publicity bonanza that comes with it. For the third year running, we're asking you to help seed the bracket in our Parking Madness tournament by sending in photos of the sorriest wastes of urban space you can find.
March 3, 2015
Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown
Streetsblog's Parking Madness competition has highlighted the blight that results when large surface parking lots take over a city's downtown. Even though Rochester, winner of 2014's Golden Crater, certainly gains bragging rights, all of the competitors have something to worry about: Cumulatively, the past 50 years of building parking have had a debilitating effect on America's downtowns.
April 10, 2014
Rochester Wins 2014 Parking Madness Title and Claims the Golden Crater
An asphalt scar in Rochester, New York, has triumphed over 15 of the world's worst parking craters to become the Parking Madness 2014 champion.
April 9, 2014