Love these! But nothing beats some proper bollards to separate that bike lane.

Tripe D all the way

Dropped by this morning, and this same restaurant expanded their outdoor seat even more into the old parking lot... @parkingreform.org

Join us on Friday with youth leaders Kate Rodgers & Ryan Lenney (Student Homes Coalition) to learn more about their unique model of organizing and their state-level parking reform advocacy efforts. RSVP: luma.com/6mo7sn47

If you’re in the NYC area, we encourage you to attend! www.openplans.org/events/book-...

I hear all the time that the @parkingreform.org weekly newsletter is one that folks really look forward to getting! If you're not on our list yet, why not? mailchi.mp/parkingrefor...

🚨Baltimore has done it! The second-largest US city, after Denver, to pass a complete repeal of parking mandates in 2025. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Interesting use case for retrofitting an underground parking garage! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Straight from the source at Ottawa City Hall: Building parking costs more than it ever makes back. It's never profitable.

How does parking shape your street, rent, or travel? Tony Jordan, ParkingReformNetwork on rethinking parking can make our suburbs fairer and easier to get around. Spotify tinyurl.com/ypp692nh #ParkingReform #BetterTransport #LiveableCities #UrbanChange #HousingAffordability #PublicSpace #CityDesign

🚨 100 US cities have now fully abolished parking mandates citywide! Shreveport, Louisiana, pushed the count to the 100th mark! It also became the first city in Louisiana to entirely abolish parking mandates! parkingreform.org/mandates-map...

So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development

Congratulations to IL on becoming the third state to pass state level Parking Reform in 2025! We’ve still got CT & NC on the clock which would get us to 5 in one year! Amazing work by @parkingreform.org & many others 🙌🙌

Places for people > Places for cars

Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂 Tag yourself!

"Parking requirements, in particular, are the most impactful land use policy that inhibits smart growth – and thus they represent the greatest opportunity to unlock climate-smart housing construction within urban and suburban areas."

What has more impact: removing minimum parking mandates or imposing maximums? In some places, researchers have found that removing minimums had FAR MORE EFFECT on the number of parking spaces built than imposing maximums. Consider #London.🧵

Would you rather be cruising in a Costco or a Trader Joe's parking lot? Only right answers please.

So far in 2025, 11 cities have clearly signaled that the era of mandatory parking is coming to an end! 🎉 parkingreform.org/mandates-map/

If you want to hear me ranting about church parking lots, you're in luck... I did this li'l webinar for the @parkingreform.org Parking Reform Network. Just realized they put it up on YouTube, so here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixc8...

I'm excited to talk about why kids can't get themselves to school anymore with Natasha Riveron and THE @coachbalto.bsky.social! You can join our @parkingreform.org discussion on Zoom on Monday at 3:00 eastern: luma.com/85bkwa2l

🎉 Congratz Zurich! Paris has also taken a similar measure. I wonder when/if an American city will take a similar approach.

Share your story if you are participating in the #weekwithoutdriving !

Parking doesn't just ruin cities, it ruins video games, too! You've heard the story - Sim City's creators wanted to model real cities but "there were way to many parking lots in the real world and [the] game was going to be really boring." Join us Saturday to hear from a Sim City designer!

Things are set up and we're getting started! Come check out what community orgs have put together to spark joy, art, fun, and community! Bellevue's first-ever #ParkingDay is underway!

There is a corkboard outside my office and I have just started decorating it, but you can see where my priorities are 😏 @thewaroncars.bsky.social @parkingreform.org @highcountrynews.org

Parking Day is here! Today, communities around the world are transforming parking spaces into places for people, joy, and connection. 💛 📍 Find an installation near you: myparkingday.org 📸 Share your parklet, tag us @parkingreform, and join the global movement.

There's definitely been some improvements since then, but even today, more than a quarter of Houston's downtown core is still just parking!

Single-stair buildings can also easily fit on smaller, oddly shaped land parcels, making them an ideal typology for infill development, especially for those smaller parking lots 😎

✨ Join us today at 4:30 pm PT with Lo Sontag as we dive into how free parking acts as a regressive subsidy that reinforces systemic inequities. luma.com/d4c45fc3

It’s been one of the great honors of my life to witness, report, and advise on this historic restoration of property rights that makes it legal to build cute main streets again.

✅ be officemates with the first Donald Shoup Award winner I have such joy and gratitude for @citizen-cate.bsky.social's work telling the stories that have helped Oregon, Anchorage, Montana, & Washington change the way their cities can be built for decades to come.

The Austin Parking Reform Coalition is the winner of the first ever Donald Shoup Organization Award! We led on Austin eliminating parking mandates in 2023. Now we're back pushing for more reform (update soon.) So proud to be part of this amazing group! Thanks to @parkingreform.org for this honor.

Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social from Connecticut Parking Reform shares how Bridgeport, CT, defeated a push to bring back parking mandates by a razor-thin 5-4 vote! parkingreform.org/2025/08/15/d...

🎉 It’s with great pleasure that we’re now announcing the recipients of the 2025 Donald Shoup Awards! Congratulations to the Austin Parking Reform Coalition, @citizen-cate.bsky.social, and @stephvigil.bsky.social !! parkingreform.org/2025-donald-...

New post about how bulk transit passes are incredibly affordable and pair nicely with new parking reform and TOD laws. New tools in SB25-161 expand this program - let's use them! Written with James Flattum from @greatdentransit.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest (27,478) for fully abolishing their parking mandates! You love to see it 😎

​Join us tomorrow at 3 pm EDT for a webinar with Anna Fahey from @sightline.org on the power of strategic messaging in parking reform! lu.ma/h8uc948f

More road-tested tips from @trufahey.bsky.social via @parkingreform.org this Thurs!

Excited to have a post over at the @parkingreform.org blog about how Bridgeport (barely) protected its parking reforms. @urbandispatch.bsky.social and I played a small role along with *so many* other passionate people who came out to protect progress in the city. parkingreform.org/2025/08/15/d...

I wonder if Shoup mentioned getting lost in a parking lot in 'The High Cost of Free Parking' 😂

Can't wait to see what @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social will say about this new traffic calming method 😂

🎉 Shoreline, WA abolishes parking mandates city-wide!!! Expect a new red dot to show up on our Mandates Map very soon! parkingreform.org/resources/ma...

Good news in Redondo Beach: this week the city council heard an update on the Artesia & Aviation revitalization plans. After hearing from staff how the city’s parking requirements would make redevelopment infeasible, council decided to move forward to eliminate parking requirements on the corridor!

"City planners pointed to other major cities in the United States that have abolished parking minimums, like Austin and Minneapolis. They found that those changes led to reduced development costs, more housing units and improved walkability and transit options..." denverite.com/2025/08/05/d...

Beautiful 😍

Congratulations Denver!

Congrats to Denver for eliminating parking mandates citywide! Council passed the measure by a 9 to 3 vote last night.

This game is getting better and better by the day. Can't wait for it to be released! If you haven't already, be make sure to read our interview with Hilko Janssen, the man behind Car Park Capital. parkingreform.org/2025/06/13/m...

Urban 3 just dropped an excellent video analysis revealing hidden ways cities subsidize the fiscal black hole that is parking.