Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Social Engineering! Cities That Build More Parking Get More Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 13, 2016 | No Comments

Build parking spaces and they will come — in cars. New research presented this week at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board finds a direct, causal relationship between the amount of parking in cities and car commuting rates. University of Wisconsin researcher Chris McCahill and his team examined nine “medium-sized” cities — with relatively stable […]

Advocates to City Council: Parking Mandates Make Housing Less Affordable

By David Meyer | Dec 14, 2015 | 2 Comments

Requiring the construction of parking spaces drives up the cost of housing in New York City, which is why parking policy reform figures prominently in the de Blasio administration’s rezoning plans. Now a coalition of advocates is highlighting how much those reforms matter to the campaign to make housing more affordable. City Hall’s plan calls for the elimination of mandatory […]

After $11M in Repairs, Is Borough Hall Plaza a Plaza, or a Parking Lot?

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2015 | 18 Comments

Bklyn. Borough Hall plaza almost redone. Now it returns to its intended purpose: parking. @StreetsblogNYC pic.twitter.com/rYE6pgpGxF — Brian Howald (@bdhowald) November 20, 2015 This year, contractors hired by the Parks Department got to work replacing the bluestone in the plaza outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, which was busted up due in part to people — including […]

Queens Community Board Chairs Care About Parking More Than Housing

By Ben Fried | Nov 17, 2015 | 54 Comments

Give it up for Queens community board chairs. Thanks to a vote last night, we now have a crystal clear expression of their priorities. Nothing is more important than parking. In a city without enough housing to go around, where rising rents are squeezing people in more neighborhoods every year, the community board chairs have taken a bold […]

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Cartoon Donald Shoup Explains How Planning for Cars Ruins Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 12, 2015 | No Comments

This is a pretty great animation explaining how American cities were undermined by a slavish dedication to storing and moving cars. It’s by comedian Adam Conover from TruTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything,” who also made this great video explaining the screwed up origin of the word “jaywalking.” The best part may be the animated version of parking […]

NYC Housing Policy Too Important to Be Written By Free Parking Addicts

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2015 | 35 Comments

Earlier this week the Department of City Planning presented its housing affordability plan to the Queens Borough Board, where representatives of community boards throughout the borough kvetched about — you guessed it — parking. One of the best things about DCP’s Housing New York plan is that it would bring an end to parking requirements […]

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