…runs faster? Do you want parking in front of this strip of businesses, or is it more important to have a transit lane there? The questions are hard, but any…
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Walkscore.com and the Lure of the Single “Score”
…which streets have sidewalks but where the usable off-road paths are, possibly including parking lots and vacant lots that you can safely cut across. It should probably also show not…
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…
On the US Downtown Bus Plaza
…in Boulder, a bus station under a parking garage on the edge of downtown. The result is a functional station, and often these are the least-bad sites given a city’s…
Transit’s Zoom-Whoosh Problem
…one-by-one fare transactions, getting stuck in turnouts or behind parallel-parking cars — is the closest thing to “earth-crawling” that modern technology can offer at scale. The most complete and authentic…
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…
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…
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,…
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. …
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….