Paul (parking reform) Barter
@paulbarter.bsky.social
Yes, a parking-policy book club IS my idea of fun. You got a problem with that? An 🇦🇺ian in 🇸🇬 (since 2000) but a 🌏 focus. Join Parking Reform Network! https://www.reinventingparking.org/
New episode up! We talk with transit planner Jarrett Walker, author of the recently reissued classic Human Transit, about why buses are so great, how we can make them better, & how advocates should fight for public transit in a hostile federal funding environment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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#pavementsareforpeople Repeat offender - a business on Windmill Rd parks customer's cars illegally creating hazards for pavement users.
Singpore is testing a new way to pay for street parking, via the on-board units in the new positioning-based Electronic Road Pricing system. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/er... cc @parkingreform.org @davidzipper.bsky.social
What roadside parking could look like under ERP 2
About 1,000 motorists are testing roadside electronic parking under ERP 2. CNA took it for a spin.
channelnewsasia.com
There is arguably no greater act of climate arson than building a giant parking garage at an airport served by a train station. ( looking at you Port of Portland )
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
Parking maps in action @tonyjordan.bsky.social
David Soto@davsot.bsky.social · 5d ago. @depordoquier.bsky.social y yo colaboramos en este video. — 🤯 ¿Llevar el tren a la gente, o traer la gente al tren? 🚇El problema no es el tren, es lo que hay *alrededor*. ¿Recuerdas el Popeyes de Sagrado? Antes eso iba a ser un centro gubernamental, pero nunca se mudaron las agencias.
There used to be bollards on both sides of the tactile paving here. They got knocked over by cars and as a reward, the council never reinstalled them. Can we have pur bollards back please! Pavements are for people, not for cars!!
People WILL happily pay for convenient parking. --- Crista Ardito was visiting the mall to go to a restaurant with a friend and said they were willing to pay $4.45 for two hours. "We're both lazy, and we're both hungry," she said. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Willowbrook Mall's new paid parking option sparks debate among N.J. shoppers
A new parking option is turning into a shopping debate at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey.
cbsnews.com
A 15-story garage "would make the parking deck taller than the main terminal... likely block most views of the historic terminal." The rail platform is where it is precisely because under federal law (Section 4f) it couldn't block the "historic" parking lot view.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
Four Latin American cities, same density: 15,000 inhab/km2. Guess the cities.
"[NYC's] property tax system keeps sending the same message it sent in 1988: there’s no cost to leaving good land idle, so you might as well park a few cars on it." by @danieltrubman.bsky.social danieltrubman.substack.com/p/the-willia...
The Williamsburg parking lot that used to be sixteen apartments
Just as New York passed its biggest pro-housing reform in decades, a prime Williamsburg lot won official approval to remain a parking lot.
danieltrubman.substack.com
Absolutely horrifying, but is it really scarier than when you can’t find a free parking space right by your destination? Who can say, really?
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Dear Australia: fuel prices are not about to jump. What is about to happen is that you will pay something closer to the real price of oil reliance, rather than forcing your fellow taxpayers who either don't drive or drive less to make up the difference.
Prices to jump at the bowser as fuel excise cut ends
The price of unleaded and diesel will climb in the next week as the government's fuel excise cut officially ends. But experts say prices won't go as high as they did due to increased supply.
abc.net.au
Notice how he doesn't even mention parking, despite the containers being located along the curb. Other mayors would talk about the tradeoffs and say, "Look, we know New Yorkers like their parking." Not Mamdani. He keeps the focus where it belongs: on cleaner streets.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d agoNow this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.
There are some good mandatory minimums. High liability for car drivers 👍🏼 Lots of parking for cars 👎🏼
Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 5d agoYes, plus the mandatory minimums in the Netherlands are ~100x the US (varies by state). 5 million euros personal injury liability coverage! Under-compensation to victims is a subsidy for US drivers, and the most dangerous drivers get the largest subsidy. www.finassverzekert.nl/en/blogs/ins...
Useful isochronic public transport travel time mapping of Singapore by Kulkarni Venugopal www.traveltime.sg
Singapore Travel Time Map
See where you can get to in Singapore on public transport within a chosen time. Pin a starting point, pick 15 to 90 minutes, and the map shades everywhere you can reach.
traveltime.sg
Ending Houston's costly parking mandates could mean more shops & homes, less flooding, and more federal dollars. What's not to like? 👍️
Keep Houston growing and affordable. Cut parking minimums. | Editorial
How can Houston keep growing and stay affordable? Cut parking minimums, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
houstonchronicle.com
Parking. For cars. It's literally causing the end of civilization. Like, not in a metaphorical sense -- we are fighting over whether children should have homes, or drivers should be able to store their cars for free. So far, the drivers are winning.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2w agoI feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.
“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
ft.com
Semi-periodic reminder that Bridgeport has 94% (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) fewer homes in downtown now than it did in 1913 Highways and parking for suburbanites absolutely ate the heart of the city—TEAR DOWN ROUTE 8
Urban Dispatch@urbandispatch.bsky.social · 6d agoGreat news, can they tear down route 8 while they're otherwise doing work there?
Just as NYC passed its biggest pro-housing reform in decades, a prime Williamsburg lot won approval to stay a parking lot. In my latest piece, I look at 317 Bedford Ave—and how our property tax system rewards car storage over housing. danieltrubman.substack.com/p/the-willia...
The Williamsburg parking lot that used to be sixteen apartments
Just as New York passed its biggest pro-housing reform in decades, a prime Williamsburg lot won official approval to remain a parking lot.
danieltrubman.substack.com
These weeds are involved in some radical environmental activism, taking over a parking lot; reclaiming nature from the grip of car-centric development. ✊
After discovering @bicycledutch.bsky.social, a Tsinghua University professor advocated for the fietsstraat: where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests. Today, that idea has spread across Beijing: Hundreds of kilometres of bike-priority streets now form the backbone of the city’s network.
Probably the most difficult thing YIMBYs face -- really, anyone who lives in a city -- is that government-subsidized street parking is one of the single largest barriers to affordability, safe streets, and climate action. That's because drivers view it as an entitlement, like social security. 🧵
This is one of the Shararh's best videos. Some real interesting points made.
Jedwin Mok@jedwinmok.com · 2w agoHonored to be featured in Building Beautifully’s latest video about transit construction costs! Sharath puts it best: “We keep treating cost blowouts as inevitabilities instead of looking to the rest of the world out of misguided notions of exceptionalism.” Watch now! youtu.be/iIET6M3phqA?...
Here's an open access version of some of the research I've been part of on this.
Valley of the Sun-Drenched Parking
Despite ample research on many impacts of abundant parking, to date little attention has focused on potential significant consequences for urban heat.
transfersmagazine.org
On Thursday July 30 I'll be on the @parkingreform.org 's webinar talking about how parking exacerbates urban heat. Bryce Christiano will also be on the discussion.
Hot Spot: How Parking Exacerbates Urban Heat · Zoom · Luma
It’s another record-busting summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and a good time to remember that oversized parking lots are a huge contributor to unhealthy and…
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If you're involved in the rapid roll-out of bicycle urbanism in YOUR city, @modacitylife.com clear, concise🧵 of how Beijing moved from a bike mode share of 9.5% in 2015 to 30% of all trips by bike now is a must-read. Every local culture, climate, and fossil-lite economy depends on rapid action NOW.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · last wk.Beijing’s bicycle comeback might be one of the world's most significant urban cycling revivals. After decades of decline, its mode share has climbed back to almost 30%, supported by over 3,200 kilometres of infrastructure, extensive bike-sharing systems, and an ambitious program of street redesign.🧵
