Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Council Considers Eliminating Truck Parking Fines (Update #2)

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2008 | 26 Comments

UPDATE: Intro 637 has been tabled. There will be no council vote today. As of this writing, the City Council is scheduled to vote today to codify a Department of Finance program that makes it cheaper — and in some cases free — for commercial trucks to park illegally. The DOF Stipulated Fine Program, started […]

How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2008 | 31 Comments

Biking by the Seine during car-free hours on the Georges Pompidou Expressway. The mayor of a global metropolis, elected to his first term in 2001, set out to reduce driving and promote greener modes of transportation in his city. Congestion pricing turned out to be unfeasible, because influential political forces in the suburbs believed, rightly […]

Residential Parking Plan Falls With Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Apr 18, 2008 | 17 Comments

We haven’t really talked about it on Streetsblog, but when state lawmakers killed congestion pricing, they also nixed the city’s proposed Residential Parking Permit program. The Brooklyn Paper reports that some still want RPPs, with or without pricing: To generate support for the now-dead $8 fee to drive into Manhattan, the city had offered to […]

Randi Weingarten Still Doesn’t Get It

By Brad Aaron | Apr 16, 2008 | 20 Comments

Back in January United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten protested Mayor Bloomberg’s mandate to reduce the number government parking placard handouts. In a letter to the mayor, Weingarten called the move "deeply troubling," and claimed that taking free parking away from teachers — who, unlike tens of thousands of other government employees, "are not […]

Après Congestion Pricing, It’s Time to Look at the Paris Model

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 15, 2008 | 19 Comments

Amsterdam Ave. and 76th St. with street space reallocated to walkers, bikes and buses. When Transportation Alternatives, Project for Public Spaces and the Open Planning Project started the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign nearly three years ago, the plan was to build a movement that would work block-by-block and neighborhood-by-neighborhood to reclaim the city’s […]

In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street

By Brad Aaron | Apr 15, 2008 | 16 Comments

Buses and trucks jockey for position on 181st Street in Washington Heights Less parking; safer conditions for pedestrians and cyclists; fewer buses; improved traffic enforcement; designated commercial loading zones; control over street vendors; more parking. Those were among the top suggestions offered to DOT staff and consultants last Thursday at a forum for planned improvements […]

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