…the corridor faces. While transit malls in some cities completely ban non-transit vehicles, existing high-rise parking garages that front onto King Street and businesses throughout the bustling entertainment district without…
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Portland: Two New Plans to Watch
…can operate reliably. Other city functions, like parking and law enforcement, also have a big impact. So we get great outcomes only when city government takes a strong leadership role…
Is Ride-Hailing to Blame for Rising Congestion?
…on the core mode-choice drivers of speed, convenience or comfort. TNCs are used instead of personal autos mainly when parking is expensive or difficult to find and to avoid drinking…
Walkability, Weaponized
…planning.” It arises mostly from other decisions that seem to be about other things: zoning, development review, street design, housing policy, parking policy, and even law enforcement. Imagine Speck striding…
December Digest (and Why You Should Follow Me on Twitter)
…and Minneapolis have eliminated parking minimums for new development. This is a colossal step that no other big US (or Australia/NZ) city has taken. Our firm is starting into bus…
Elon Musk’s Tunnel: It Doesn’t Scale, so it Doesn’t Matter
…cars, which means it is for moving trivially tiny numbers of people. As we’ve discussed before, a car-based tunnel also requires elevators. You zip your car into a parking space…
New York: Mayor Vows to Increase Bus Speeds
…some other street use, usually parking lanes, traffic lanes, and versatile curb space for pickups and deliveries. Bus facilities cost money too, but winning these battles is the bigger struggle,…
A US Density Revolution?
…that makes it easier to build densely by: reducing off-street parking requirements, which makes denser development pencil out and can also make units more affordable streamlining transit-oriented development, including around…
Portland: Facing the East-West Chokepoint
…priorities today. Planners of the 1970s (when I was an enthusiastic teenage transit geek) confronted a city whose downtown consisted mostly of surface parking while prosperity fled to the suburbs….
A Brief Detour into Comedy
…Me. A while back they called out of the blue. Apparently they had done an interview with a parking garage designer, and a listener replied by asking them why they…