Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

The World’s First Sustainable Parking Structure

By Jason Varone | Jul 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

James Howard Kunstler‘s Eyesore of the Month of July is the nation’s first LEED-certified, "sustainable solar-powered parking structure." Yep. Only in California. Kunstler writes: Apparently nobody informed these idiots that happy motoring is not a sustainable activity, and neither is the parking that necessarily attends it. This is apart from the sheer appalling monumental ugliness […]

Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco

By Brad Aaron | Jul 19, 2007 | 3 Comments

Taking a graphic, novel approach, SF Weekly reports on a ballot initiative that it says would reverse San Francisco’s progress in prioritizing people over parking. "Aparkalypse Now" says the initiative, backed by Gap clothing store founder Don Fisher and condo developer Webcor, is being promoted as a way to save downtown San Francisco from […]

NYC’s Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated)

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 30 Comments

The Solaire building in Battery Park City bills itself as "America’s first environmentally advanced residential tower." Here is a letter that building management just sent to all tenants: It has been brought to the attention of Building Management with increasing frequency that some tenants are using Public Corridors as storage for bicycles. As well as […]

Critical Transportation Reforms Sink With Pricing

By John Kaehny | Jul 18, 2007 | 7 Comments

An enforcement camera in London captures a motorist in the bus lane. Mayor Bloomberg’s strategy was to bundle all of the PlanNYC transportation reforms requiring legislative approval into one bill. The sinking of the congestion pricing ship took other victims with it. Lost with congestion pricing was legislation approving bus lane enforcement cameras, residential parking […]

Parking Reform: Reduce Congestion & Raise Money Minus Albany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 22 Comments

With congestion pricing stalled in Albany gridlock, what’s next? What immediate measures can New York City take to reduce traffic congestion without having to go through Albany to implement them? How else might New York City reduce traffic congestion while raising a bit of money for transit, bicycling and pedestrian improvements? Back in May, Transportation […]

Park(ing) Day is Coming

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2007 | 27 Comments

Depressed about the direction Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is heading? Cheer yourself up by starting to plan for Park(ing) Day 2007. Friday, September 21 is the day when urban dwellers the world over pop quarters into parking meters and take over on-street spaces, temporarily transforming them into miniature parks, playgrounds, cafés and community spaces. […]

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