Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Donald Shoup

How Much Potential Park(ing) Space is There Anyway?

By Jason Varone | Sep 24, 2007 | 23 Comments

Writing for the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Clayton takes stock of the nation’s paved parking lots and asks "does America’s four-wheeled fleet really need all that extra elbow room?" This article comes on the heels of International Park(ing) Day, a one-day grassroots event in which urban dwellers all around the world transform metered, on-street parking […]

Finally, Market Rates for Manhattan Street Parking

By Jason Varone | Jun 27, 2007 | 20 Comments

Arnold Diaz confronts some Avis employees on his "Shame Shame Shame" segment for Fox 5 News. He catches them apparently charging motorists $25 to park on a public street. This Avis branch is on the same block as the Beacon Theater, where employees have been taking up street parking during the day and selling the […]

Jessica is Lappin’ up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety

By Aaron Naparstek | May 23, 2007 | 12 Comments

At a City Council transportation hearing yesterday Manhattan City Council Member Jessica Lappin expressed anxiety about the effects of congestion pricing on her Upper East Side district. The ill-informed Lappin, who clearly has not read Donald Shoup’s 750-page masterwork, The High Cost of Free Parking, asked DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan if the city would be […]

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars.

By Josh Brustein | Mar 12, 2007 | 10 Comments

This is the second in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom In recent years, urban planners have come to accept a somewhat counter-intuitive theory called "induced demand." The theory posits that when you build a new road or widen an existing one to try to […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | Mar 8, 2007 | 14 Comments

The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]

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