How parking mandates make your "transit-oriented" condo still feel car dependent. Excellent video from Malaysia's UrbanShiftMy channel (see also www.instagram.com/urbanshiftmy/) youtu.be/IY5GGFlhD3M?...

Industry propaganda claims that energy conservation harms consumers and reduces productivity. My recent column shows these claims are false. Research indicates that resource efficiency is the key long life and prosperity. The Future Belongs to the Efficient (usa.streetsblog.org/2026/03/04/d...).

@parkingreform.org exists to generate headlines like this. Join us!

There's more to this story (apparently tenants wouldn't allow interior photos??) but, just on the basis of the headline, I think it's good that people can pay less for housing because they don't need to buy space for a car. Options are good. www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

You don't have to hate cars, but you should absolutely hate forced car dependency. This latest video from NJB breaks down the true cost of motonormativity, from subsidized sprawl and noise pollution to the physical destruction of our cities.

Yet in the KC discourse, people unironically argue that preserving parking is a win for affordability. Imagine if we didn't subject everyone to this crushing debt just to participate in our city.

One of the little-known secrets of Zurich's transit priority and traffic management policies is that they systematically prohibit left turns to an extent that would never be accepted by a US DOT. In these 4- and 5-way main intersections, not a single left-turn is allowed. So many such examples.

Apologies!! This event has been postponed until 5 May! The link in the post below will now take you to the updated event page with the new date reflected. The end of daylight savings may also mean a new time of day for many people.

Proud to pass parking decoupling this week, building on years of work including former CM Chris Riley’s leadership. By separating the cost of parking from rent, we’re giving Austinites more choice and making housing more affordable.

I have a ~1200 word essay about how parking garages in NYC often privatized their sidewalk I'm struggling to get published, so if any of my editor followers are interested send me a DM. It has some original photos and is thoroughly researched, so I think it has wider readership appeal.

New York is finally reconsidering giving away some of the world's most valuable land to cars for free. Thank god. Read more about our thoughts on the NYC free parking debate below: mailchi.mp/parkingrefor...

Apartments are family homes. Condos are family homes. Triplexes are family homes. This sanctification of the detached single-family house is so maddening—just a totally American form of brain worms that doesn't discriminate by political alignment.

"For apartments, required parking can add roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit — and that cost can cause some projects to be delayed, or canceled altogether."

"The rising cost of parking is prompting cities to rethink development rules. At least 12 of the 17 cities studied by #UCLA have fully or partially eliminated minimum parking requirements in recent years."

Any Australia-based or Aussie parking reformers here? Join us Tuesday morning 31 March (Australia time zones) for an online @parkingreform.org event. I will moderate a panel on the need for change, recent momentum, and how to keep it going. Please spread the word! luma.com/yw04hq8d?tk=...

We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people. Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast. Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

What share of American environmentalists think imposing minimum parking mandates is a good way to prevent environmental harm? @ceqaworks.bsky.social, @ceja.org , have you seen any data on this question?

Another study finds that AVs will increase total driving. This one focuses on shifting parking behavior: "AV commuters may choose to park outside the CBD in equilibrium, increasing both vehicle hours and vehicle miles traveled." More VMT --> More congestion pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Any Australia-based or Aussie parking reformers here? Join us Tuesday morning 31 March (Australia time zones) for an online @parkingreform.org event. I will moderate a panel on the need for change, recent momentum, and how to keep it going. Please spread the word! luma.com/yw04hq8d?tk=...

I’ve seen active travel people celebrating the failure of NCP car parks I take the opposite view. All urban parking should be charged at full commercial cost, not undercut by cheap subsidised street parking I’d rather see multi-storeys remain while streets are cleared of car storage. Like in Japan

If you think about it, why WOULD it be the responsibility of cities to provide free parking for everyone’s cars? #UrbanTruth

Yey! More inner city street parking converted to hire-bike parking. Making London safer & greener, one parking space at a time. @stopkillingcycl.bsky.social road.cc/news/over-13...

What's telling here, of course, is that Trump has always insisted Mueller CLEARED him Trump's psychotic reaction here suggests: even TRUMP knows Mueller DID NOT clear him

Parked bikes take up 1/20 the space of parked cars. That's why everyone in Utrecht can enjoy a sunny day sitting along a canal.

A classic. #UrbanTruth

#UCLA Professor Donald Shoup made his name, in no small part, by writing articles & delivering (often hilarious) lectures comparing the wildly-divergent parking policies in different cities. Where's the young academic who will do the same with fire and building codes?

At least in New York, and I suspect this is true everywhere else, many firefighters are against bike lanes not because they impede emergency response but because they take parking that they use when they drive in from the 'burbs to their jobs. They hide behind safety because the truth seems selfish.

Building higher-density housing lets you save on land costs, by putting more homes on the same parcel. But for the same reason, people are willing to pay more. Which factor wins? Data from Auckland shows that upzoning reduced the land cost to floor area ratio (THA, blue). 1/

Okay so like I said, why is the department blocking bike lanes in the flatlands for fire safety when the number one obstacle to stopping wild fires in Berkeley is street parking in the hills?

Before (2015) / After (2026) the school street Avenue Lamoricière in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. The school street was done in 2022.

Sorry, Michaels crafters, these adorable miniature stores are illegal to build w/out first consulting the arbitrary commercial parking requirements in your town 🫠

One #UCLA study of Los Angeles area homeowners found that 75% of them did not use their garages for storing cars. When on-street parking is underpriced, the result is often overcrowded on-street parking. If you want fire safety, learn to manage on-street parking well!

Is it too many cars, or too many cars parked on the many narrow streets of the #Berkeley Hills, while simultaneously, existing off-street driveways and garages are used to store junk?

America's auto-oriented environmentalists think of this Ritz Carlton hotel as more eco-friendly than a proposed housing project for retired farmworkers. Why? It prevented the "environmental impact" of "inadequate parking" by building a massive 3-level parking garage to "mitigate" environmental harm

Always proud to be a member of @bkcb6.bsky.social. Last night our transportation committee passed a unanimous resolution asking our electeds to support transferring traffic and parking enforcement back to DOT. Giuliani transferred it to NYPD in 1996 and we've seen how well that's worked out.

Now we must get the word out to auto-oriented environmentalists that: 1️⃣"Inadequate parking" is NOT an "environmental impact." 2️⃣"Adequate parking" (usually interpreted to mean ample free parking at every destination) is not a cure. Like lead therapy, it is a discredited theory that harms the patient

"To comply with local parking requirements—two spaces for every studio or one-bedroom apartment, and rising from there—the builders had been forced to pour millions of dollars of concrete and reduce their number of new apartments, all to build a garage their low-income tenants would never fill."

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

If I wanted to give a succinct example to my family back east why California politics are so cursed, “Sierra Club leader wants more parking” is probably a great start

I am a parking reformer because I live in a country where self-professed environmentalists, like this @sierraclub.org leader, oppose affordable housing because it ”doesn’t have enough parking.”

Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.

We cannot get rid of pastoral environmentalists soon enough

Whether to charge for parking (and when and how much) should be based on observations of parking demand/supply, not on revenue goals. The goal is not revenue but rationing scarce street parking so that parking and mobility systems work better. Revenue will follow as a nice side-benefit.

#Austin removed virtually all minimum parking mandates, citywide, and adopted other pro-housing reforms. The sky didn't fall, but rents did. Inflation-adjusted rents declined 19% from 2021-2025.

In other words, AVs will bring about major congestion that governments can’t fix. Happily, there is a solution: Road pricing Managed lanes (like I-66 in NoVA) and congestion pricing (as in NYC) can force AV companies & customers to consider the slowdowns they impose on everyone else.

"Nearly 400" parking spaces for $43 million dollars. $107K+ PER STALL. They're gonna charge $2 an hour with a maximum of $8 per day. At 100% capacity at the daily rate it would take 36 years to pay off the garage. www.edhat.com/slo/news/dow...

When similar technology reaches American buses, they’ll recharge in less than the time it takes for a driver to make their end-of-route bathroom break.

Cities are updating zoning codes to allow fast paid 24/7 EV charging pretty much anywhere. The problem is, the charging already takes less time than it did when they wrote the new code. So Tesla can build a gas station in your front yard (don't ask me how I know, it's embarrassing).