Vancouver’s West End is the densest neighbourhood in Canada. Its mix of housing includes lots of apartment towers. I highly recommend anyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit. It really is a nice experience.

merry christmas to illinois, that finally freed us from ugly parking requirements (at least near transit)

And for the skeptics, $1 million in revenue in one year from a single (popular!) street in Austin where paid parking was fully implemented. The revenue from 2025 is *even* higher. www.axios.com/local/austin...

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“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

There is no such thing as free parking!

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

Posting is a good follow-up to praxis. My routine is: Win consulting gig. Re-read research. Make slides summarizing research. Present slides to electeds. Post slides to inform advocates elsewhere. Even if the place that hired us doesn’t embrace all our recommendations, they may help someone else.🙂

The real breakthrough of the year isn’t AI. It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

"A new book has come out in honor of Donald Shoup, the tireless proponent of parking reform who died this year. The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, was published by Routledge/Taylor + Francis and edited by Daniel Hess..."

Honestly, have people who say this sort of thing never been to Europe or East Asia? (The countries eating our lunch on reducing traffic violence.) Yes, they've made a bunch of design changes to reduce speeds, and have much better transit. But they also have speed and red light cameras everywhere.

Worth reading from @transportist.org on Bondi. Any murderous attack on anyone would be evil of course! But David points out the irony that the event was organised by Chabad, which is non-Zionist in outlook and "pretty close to the opposite of the people the nut jobs are actually angry at".

A parking lot turns into 72 homes in Sacramento. (2015➡️2020)

The "greatest city in the world" utterly fails to deal with the ubiquitous delivery industry

Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally) – We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas – Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero 1/2

Severance (of car parking in Paris)

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Me insisting on fitting into the suit I got married in.

MAGA: Down with snowflakes and hurrah for FREE SPEECH! also MAGA: You can't come to America unless you show us your social media posts and prove that you've never said hurty words about our president...

It turns out that people like being in places without a lot of cars and traffic messing things up.

Has anybody been to #NewZealand lately? How is it? Has chaos erupted?

We don’t need to overthink induced demand to do something about it. "Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too." Read my latest piece from SSTI.

Enterprise Integration Patterns or High Cost of Free Parking

In the first six months of congestion pricing, air pollution within Manhattan's toll zone dropped 25%. Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.

I’m very proud to have been part of this report with @pactsuk.bsky.social and @sarahcoombesmp.bsky.social on the serious and growing problem of Ghost Plates. The past couple of months have been incredibly eye-opening, to say the least: transportsafetyappg.org.uk/inquiries/ve...

Stroad parking lot with single story restaurant transforms into ➡️ 213 new homes and 4 new ground floor businesses in Ottawa, Canada

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I found this interview I gave in 2018 about autonomous vehicles and I stand by all of it and I think it holds up a lot better than most the current discourse. Someone get me a keynote. www.pps.org/article/wher...

I wrote a thing. Build trams, but build them well. Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them. open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...

Zurich, far from being a city "hostile" to cars, understood that planning for the maximum efficiency of the existing road network in the inner city means giving priority to spatially efficient transit and managing flows with a holistic view, not relying on a "dumb" intersection-based LOS metric.

Two examples from Zurich of how indirect maneuvers help simplify intersection management and deliver effective Transit Priority even in very complex junctions, as part of a broader circulation plan. The Bellevue/Stadelhofen and Kreuplatz nodes

“Plans to replace more than 80 parking spaces with a new public square have been agreed, despite fears…” The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.😊 #Colchester www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

BAM! This is how you do it. South Downtown is replacing a parking lot with a park, adjacent to a block of great old buildings that they're renovating 😍 See how that works? Instead of demolishing old buildings, we can demolish parking lots to create new park spaces. 👍

FINALLY a significant parking reform in Australia! "Apartments in areas across the state considered to be serviced by high-frequency public transport will no longer have a minimum parking requirement." cc @parkingreform.org

“It said that up to 40 per cent of residential car parks in inner #Melbourne were empty and that it cost developers $70,000 per home to provide parking under current requirements."

Single stair 🤝 parking reform Connecticut’s now a national leader in parking flexibility, if the upcoming single stair codes are modernized we’ll have a recipe for infill housing on those hard-to-build lots in our towns and cities

I wonder how many of the cars parked around NYPD precincts (both department and personal vehicles) are really being used for police work, and how many are just sort of littered about for very occasional use in these various petty grifts nypost.com/2025/12/06/u...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

Not sure what the single yellow line means? How about DON'T PARK ON THE PAVEMENT ... 🤦‍♀️ (Church Cowley Road, Oxford OX4) #AntisocialParking #PavementParking #PavementsAreForPeople

I believe this is known as Shoup's Paradox

POV: You turned your stadium car park into a dense, amenity-rich neighborhood.

Loosely edited transcript of folks would like to read rather than listen. theoverheadwire.com/2025/12/uned...

New #TalkingHeadways podcast!! The (Parking) Reformation with @tonyjordan.bsky.social of @parkingreform.org usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/04/t...

This one time I wrote a post on @metafilter.bsky.social about The High Cost of Free Parking, which @tonyjordan.bsky.social happened to read. He got hooked on the topic, and went on to organize the big and impactful @parkingreform.org! It’s fantastic work, and very cool that I got to play a bit part

A top Albany government watchdog is pushing Gov. Hochul to veto a bill that would let motorists park illegally in Co-op City bus lanes, even though automated parking enforcement has been proven to speed up bus service.

I was 19 when I asked that my BART parking lot be turned into housing. It was a pipedream. @alfredtwu.com made a drawing of apartments here that caused a neighborhood freakout. I met @libbington.bsky.social and she organized the area pro-housers. At 29, it finally begins. sfyimby.com/2025/12/perm...

Technology is cool and all but did you ever happen to think that what is possibly the most impressive and comprehensive transit signal priority system in the world, Zurich's, is essentially based on updated versions of 1970s and 80s tech, i.e. induction loops, antennas and basic programming?

*Finally* an article about e-bikes/e-motos that actually explains the distinction and makes reasonably policy prescriptions. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/ebike-...

This really needs to be understood: "The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly." The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...