Josh Brustein
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The Power of Parking Policy
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This is the third in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom Part 2: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars Over the course of the last year, New York City’s transportation policy community has spent tremendous time, energy and money pursuing […]
Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars.
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This is the second in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom In recent years, urban planners have come to accept a somewhat counter-intuitive theory called "induced demand." The theory posits that when you build a new road or widen an existing one to try to […]
The New York City Parking Boom
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The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]