Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Weekend Geek Out: Pay-By-Phone Parking Comes to D.C.

By Ben Fried | Apr 9, 2010 | 2 Comments

Via Matt Yglesias, DCist reports that next week Washington area motorists will be able to pay for on-street parking by calling a phone number: The pay by phone option is being offered at 700 parking spaces in three areas of the city: around Dupont Circle, Union Station, and downtown on K Street, I Street, and […]

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San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces

By Matthew Roth | Mar 30, 2010 | No Comments

Editor’s note: We linked to this story out of San Francisco in the headline stack this morning, and it’s worth a very close look. Experts counsel that the first step in reforming parking policies that promote driving is to measure the parking supply. The number one recommendation in "Suburbanizing the City" [PDF], the 2008 report […]

Smart Parking Policy Makes a Difference, Even in Livable Streets Utopias

By Noah Kazis | Mar 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

The evidence keeps mounting that smart parking policy is an essential tool in the fight to curb traffic. A new study of two German neighborhoods indicates that managing the supply of parking can make streets more livable, even in places that already have great infrastructure for transit, walking, and biking. Eliminating mandatory parking minimums, the […]

At Flushing Commons, NYCEDC’s Fuzzy Math Superceded PlaNYC Goals

By Noah Kazis | Mar 16, 2010 | 45 Comments

Yesterday, Streetsblog looked at Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development in the heart of transit-rich downtown Flushing, where the New York City Economic Development Corporation has mandated suburban levels of parking. We asked the EDC why they required nearly 1,600 spaces in the development, and now we have an answer. It’s a revealing look at how […]

Parking Overkill in Flushing: NYCEDC Made It Happen

By Noah Kazis | Mar 15, 2010 | 34 Comments

It’s not every day that a New York City real estate executive name-checks Donald Shoup, but one developer admiringly referred to the dean of progressive parking policy while explaining his project to Streetsblog. If not for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and mis-directed political pressures, says TDC Development President Michael Meyer, the huge mixed-use […]

Billyburg’s “New Domino” Mixes Parking Disaster With Bike-Ped Benefits

By Noah Kazis | Mar 4, 2010 | 27 Comments

The New Domino development proposed for the Williamsburg waterfront made headlines last week when a Brooklyn Community Board 1 committee voted against enabling its construction. This privately financed project is worth a close look because it exemplifies how developers can embrace certain livable streets goals while ignoring the big picture of traffic. It’s the kind […]

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