…or bicycle parking, or road pricing, or parking policy, or urban structure? These things are all connected, they say! Yes, they are all connected. But despite being connected, many planning…
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new year’s resolution: no more coercion
…and non-convertible currencies: money, and the limited road space of our cities. We experience urban congestion, and parking shortages, when road-space is inaccurately priced. As I explored here, it’s as…
Paris: The Street is Ours!
…have striped this one-way street as two traffic lanes plus a parking/delivery lane on each side; in fact, if I probe my dim memories of living in Paris in 1986,…
Guest post: Driverless taxis, driverless buses, and the future urban mobility mix
…in the Portuguese capital. Such a reduction in the size of the overall fleet of cars in the city would greatly diminish parking demand. Unsurprisingly, though, in order to serve…
On Pedestrian Malls: Look to Australia
…(not yet routine in Australia). But neither of these is on the pedestrian mall itself. The mall is a short segment running from the main street to the parking lot…
Streetcars: An Inconvenient Truth
Posted on July 3, 2009 in Mobility, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Streetcars (Trams), Technophilia
…buses, the 8-Market ran in the right (outside) lane, where it had the usual interference from parallel-parking movements, right-turning cars, etc. Some of its stops were pullouts (a designated gap…
Breaking News: Jack Saves Downtown Portland from Transit Blog
…parking in downtown Portland might be too cheap: Let’s kill off downtown Portland once and for all Jack up the cost of parking down there even higher. Jarrett, old buddy…
Learning, Again, From Las Vegas
…standard car-based fantasy: each hotel/casino complex was its own unrelated composition, situated up to 1/4 mile from the street behind a vast parking lot. Today, the parking has been moved…
Transit’s Role in “Sprawl Repair”
Posted on November 15, 2010 in Access, Be on the Way, Bus Rapid Transit, Fresno, Los Angeles, Pedestrians, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), Urban Structure
…Angeles, I spent some time thinking about this issue. The densified sprawl that DPZ envisions will clearly be a place that needs much more effective transit. Parking will be more…
shared housing and shared transportation (guest post by alfred twu)
…weekends. Ashby station neighborhood. Station is blue, parking lot is black. However, the official plan to build 300 units of housing on the station parking lots met significant neighborhood opposition. …