Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

City Council Hard at Work on Pro-Parking Bills

By Brad Aaron | Jan 27, 2009 | 12 Comments

Maria Baez wants all teachers to hit the road. Transit-riding New Yorkers, take heart. In these tough times, your City Council members are at this moment pushing a slew of bills that will make your lives easier. All you have to do is trade your MetroCard for a set of car keys. In December and […]

City Council Members: Down With Parking Enforcement

By Ben Fried | Jan 12, 2009 | 30 Comments

Councilmen Weprin, Felder, and Gentile protest the injustice of enforcing the law. Photo: Daily Politics Sick of walking around cars parked on the sidewalk? Fed up with the excessive traffic cruising for parking spots in your neighborhood? Tough luck. A gaggle of City Council members has got nothing for you, but they do want to […]

Chicago Loses NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money

By Ben Fried | Jan 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Will Chicago get a second chance at federal funds for better bus service? Photo: celikins/Flickr Looks like New York legislators aren’t the only ones willing to pass up big money for transportation improvements if it means putting a fair price on private auto use. Back in April, the feds withdrew a $354 million grant to […]

DOT Shows Off Grand Concourse Improvements

By Ben Fried | Dec 23, 2008 | 25 Comments

Lou Gehrig Plaza: No longer a parking lot for Bronx County Courthouse employees. Bronx electeds joined DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan yesterday to mark a completed round of ped-bike enhancements to the Grand Concourse and 161st Street. The package includes the newly ped-friendly Lou Gehrig Plaza (in front of the Bronx County Courthouse), and wider medians […]

Chicago Outsources Parking Reform to Morgan Stanley

By John Kaehny | Dec 12, 2008 | 19 Comments

The Chicago City Council has approved by a vote of 40-5 a deal to privatize the city’s 36,000 metered parking spots for the next 75 years, trading meter revenues for an upfront payment of $1.15 billion. Under the agreement with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, meter rates will rise substantially and some meters will operate overnight and […]

City Traded Parking Spots for Yankee Stadium Suite

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2008 | 5 Comments

Not that we need more evidence that the Yankee Stadium parking deal was rancid to the core, but a Saturday story in the Times reveals the sad details of the Bloomberg administration’s push for luxury game day digs — a 12-seat suite in left field — for which it traded 250 spots to the team. […]

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