Showing posts with label high cost of free parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high cost of free parking. Show all posts
Friday, August 07, 2020

Big Yellow Taxi.

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A brilliant rant by Jeff Siegler, which should be read by every single person -- stakeholder or otherwise -- who claims to care about the...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Learning to "despise parking lots like the good-for-nothing, colossal wastes of space they are."

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All that empty, unused space. The Revenge of the Parking Lot , by Neal Freyman ( Morning Brew ) Before I wrote for the Brew, I worke...
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Saturday, September 07, 2019

Gahan's Limitless Ignorance, Volume 392: "Free parking is a bigger equity concern because everyone pays for it, but you must have enough money to own a car in order to qualify for it."

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"Essentially, our poorest citizens are subsidizing the wealthiest when it comes to transportation." Lest this come as a shock...
Friday, February 01, 2019

How do minimum parking requirements factor into New Albany's forthcoming updated zoning ordinance?

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The argument against minimum parking requirements is not new. Donald Shoup was talking about it in 199 9. Urban planners typically set...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Windmill dunk by Richard Florida: "America devotes far too many of its precious resources to parking."

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Outside, it's New Albany, and in this map prepared a few years back by Jeff Gillenwater, parking areas in downtown are colored red. G...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

In letter to newspaper, downtown shop owner disagrees with a parking policy that doesn't exist.

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The letter's author appeared in these pages in the spring of 2015, when her shop was blocked without warning by the farmers market. ...
Saturday, April 08, 2017

Parking the car when it's not moving, "which, these days, is about 95% of the time."

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A long, leisurely Saturday morning read. Parkageddon: How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl ( The Economist ) Don...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

"Parking meters and opportunity costs."

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It might be funny if not for the hair-tearing frustration of it. The same person who'll happily drive ten miles to walk back and fort...
Monday, April 04, 2016

"Ideas worth stealing: Parking benefit districts."

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Or, we could institute sidewalk double parking. Each month downtown merchants gather, and parking is always a topic of conversation. Th...