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NYC DOT to Roll Out Smart Parking Tech in 2012

By Noah Kazis | Nov 7, 2011 | 11 Comments

New York City is moving forward with plans to use sensors to improve parking management, along the lines of San Francisco’s pioneering SFPark system. The program will be unveiled next year, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced at a conference on transportation and technology held last Friday at Columbia University. For now, DOT is only dropping […]

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SFPark, Putting Shoup’s Ideas to the Test, Launches to Much Political Support

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 22, 2011 | No Comments

San Francisco launched the world’s most ambitious and innovative parking project yesterday, a federally-funded trial that could revolutionize the way cities manage the public supply of parking. SFPark promises to make it easier for motorists to find spaces in busy commercial districts, while reducing congestion, speeding transit, increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, and improving […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: The Right Price for Parking

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 19, 2011 | No Comments

You might be shocked at how much traffic consists of drivers who have already arrived at their destination but find themselves cruising the streets, searching for an open parking spot. In some city neighborhoods, cruising makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traffic slows down buses, endangers cyclists and […]

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Marin County Opens New Tunnel For Biking, Walking and Rolling

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 14, 2010 | No Comments

Hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians — and more than a few elected officials — turned out on Friday afternoon last week to cut the ribbon on an impressive piece of infrastructure for human-powered travel — the long-awaited Cal Park Tunnel in Marin County, California. The project has been talked about since the late 1970s and […]

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New Video Sim Bets San Franciscans Will Heart Performance Parking

By Matthew Roth | Aug 6, 2010 | No Comments

In a refreshing turn, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages the streets of San Francisco, has produced an informative and whimsical animated short explaining how their dynamic parking management pilot, SFPark, will work. The video (and pretty much everything else about the SFPark.org website) uses a cute Sim-City aesthetic […]

If Bus Stops Disappear, What Will Happen to All That Space?

By Noah Kazis | May 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo: cyclosity/Flickr Starting June 27, 570 bus stops across New York City could disappear. Unless Congress delivers an 11th hour reprieve — still a distinct possibility — service cuts will axe or reroute dozens of bus lines, raising the question of what to do with all the curbside real estate at these potentially defunct stops. […]

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