…and (b) reinforced by even more talk about the urgency of the citywide goals that they are fighting for, block by block, foot by foot, parking space by parking space….
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for the holidays, a sentimental epilogue
…he’s always a little on edge with all the random bustle of strangers. He also hates parking there, all that pointless circling in concrete parking structures. His mother keeps telling…
chicago: bus rapid transit moves forward
…composed of four travel lanes, parking lanes, and a median alternating with a turn lane. It’s interesting to read the press materials for this project, because they heavily emphasize the…
Further Cause for Canadian Triumphalism
…are dense enough to have significant parking costs, and are almost always right on the rail system. The result is a multi-directional pattern of demand that’s relatively easy to serve…
“Decide and Provide”: Transport Modeling That Gives Us Choices
…A conventional model will show that you need lots of parking, but also that you’ll generate lots of traffic on the nearby streets, which will provoke the neighbors to rise…
Notes on SimCity at 30
Car oriented development looks a lot more viable when you hide all the parking! Yes, the first attempt at a comprehensive city planning game, Sim City, is 30 years old….
Notes on the New Microsoft Campus
…in a difficult context. None of the materials I’ve seen mentions the parking ratios, however. How many spaces per employee? Too much parking would destroy the whole point. …
Guest Post: Transit Oriented Development on a Small Town Scale
…bus stop, totally separated from parking. Bus pull-off and shelter constructed for CATA by shopping center developer. A pedestrian network. Nothing is more important than a complete system of direct,…
Bus Rapid Transit: Some Questions to Ask
…and on-street parking, especially in a business district. Here it’s almost impossible to do a quantitative comparison, because the values on the two sides are so different. I’ve never seen…
Three Paths to a Low-Car City
…embracing a zero-car life. But zero-car households remain an interesting metric, at least for the idealists out there. How much are zero-car households constrained by overly abundant residential parking? It’s…