Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Unlike the Knicks, “New York’s Team” Takes the Subway to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 14 Comments

We already know that the New York Rangers’ center Sean Avery loves riding his bike. Now we learn that forward Brendan Shanahan and several other teammate take the subway to the office. From yesterday’s New York Times: "Still, Shanahan, a 20-year veteran, said he liked the atmosphere in the Rangers’ half of the empire. He […]

Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 12, 2007 | 47 Comments

Click to play Streetsblog’s Donald Shoup theme song:[mp3]shoop30.mp3[/mp3] Spencer Wilking reports: There’s nothing more blessed to the New York City driver than finding an open parking spot. Donald Shoup, professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, would like New Yorkers to reconsider that ideal. The parking policy cult hero addressed a crowd at Fordham’s Pope Auditorium […]

Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 47 Comments

| View | Upload your own Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller’s team at the Department of Transportation has been taking ideas offered up by Traffic Mitigation Commission members and running them through NYMTC’s regional traffic model. Schaller’s job is to help the Commission determine how effective each of these ideas will be in cutting traffic and […]

Shoup on Lehrer

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

Parking policy maven Donald Shoup will be on the Brian Lehrer show this morning, WNYC, 93.9 FM. He’ll be delving into the question: Is on-street parking too cheap in Manhattan? He’ll also be speaking tonight at 6pm: Fordham University – Pope Auditorium 113 W. 60th St. (at Columbus Av.) Manhattan By the way, check out […]

Parking Guru Donald Shoup Coming to Town Monday

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2007 | 3 Comments

Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, will be in New York next week, with a number of events on Monday culminating in an evening appearance at Fordham University. Here’s a rundown. Press Walk-Thru of One of NYC’s Worst Streets to ParkMonday, December 10, 12 noonSE Corner of 6th Avenue and West […]

Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2007 | 23 Comments

It looks like 5th Precinct Commanding Officer Gin Yee, the Sheriff of Chinatown, is laying down the law once again. A Streetsblog tipster spotted these tow trucks as they were removing government placard abusers from their illegal parking spots in Chinatown. While it’s refreshing to see the police "towing their own," the tipster notes that […]

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