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Archive for Parking

July 2008
7/02: Peak Rate Parking Proposal Sails Through Preliminary Meeting 11
7/01: Who's Afraid of Indoor Bike Parking? 19
June 2008
6/30: City Council Signs Off on 400-Car Garage in Hell's Kitchen 4
6/25: Eyes on the Street: Ikea Shuttles Tearing Through Brooklyn 'Hoods 47
6/24: DOT Asks Public for Ideas on Shoupian Parking Program 7
6/24: NYPD Unions File Complaint Over Placard Cuts 11
6/20: New Study Shows City Can Reduce Congestion Through Parking Policy 8
6/18: Eyes on the Street: Red Hook Ikea Parking Lot Opens for Business 46
6/13: Meet the Designer Behind the NYC Parking Boom 44
6/12: Eyes on the Street: Dekalb Bike Lane Used for NYPD Parking 23
6/12: City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen 4
6/09: Feed the Meters, Feed the Homeless 6
May 2008
5/30: Hell's Parking Lot 7
5/27: Has Time Run Out on the Parking Placard "Crackdown"? 5
5/21: Do Alternate Side Parking Rules Increase Traffic Congestion? 29
5/16: Open Season on Parking Spots, and Parking Agents 21
5/15: Donald Shoup: Planners Are Versed in Parking Politics, Not Policy 4
5/07: Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots? 0
5/06: San Francisco Launches Ambitious Parking Reform Program 8
5/01: 25,000 Fewer (Official) Parking Placards for City Employees 26
April 2008
4/30: Council Considers Eliminating Truck Parking Fines (Update #2) 25
4/22: How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing 29
4/21: Automated Underground Bike Parking in Tokyo 18
4/18: Residential Parking Plan Falls With Congestion Pricing 17
4/16: Randi Weingarten Still Doesn't Get It 19
4/15: Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model 19
4/15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16
4/11: Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover 18
4/10: If You Build It With Less Parking, They Will Still Come 16
4/10: Neighborhoods and Parking Reform: Show Them The Money 22
4/10: Brooklyn CB1 Approves Bike Path in Place of Parking 12
4/09: Internal Affairs Crackdown Nets Placard Abusers 4
4/09: Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong 6
4/08: Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn 1
4/03: Times Building Continues to Discourage Bike Commuting 11
March 2008
3/20: Demo Today Against Park-Hogging Judges 7
3/17: DOT Study Measures Lower Manhattan Placard Abuse 4
3/14: DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition 3
3/14: Eyes on the Street: Taking the Lane 11
3/14: DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets 3
3/13: CB 4 Wants On-Street Bike Parking for Ninth Avenue 1
3/12: Details of the Mayor's Residential Parking Permit Proposal 52
3/12: Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Residential Parking Program 5
February 2008
2/28: Streetfilms: Excuses 6
2/27: God Said, "Let There Be Parking Placards." And It Was So. 17
2/15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 29
2/12: P.I.D. Stands for Smarter Parking and Cleaner Sidewalks 2
2/11: Free Parking Addicts Resort to Placard Smash-and-Grabs 14
2/05: DOT: Relax Brooklyn, Parking Permits Not Just for Downtown 19
2/04: Eyes on the Street: Parking Density in Toronto 11
2/04: City Subsidizing Boater Parking 10
2/04: Blank Stares and a Friendly Garage Owner at LIC Parking Event 4
2/01: Monday Night: Have Your Say on Parking Policy in Brooklyn 1
2/01: Brooklyn Workshop Focuses on Residential Parking Program 11
January 2008
1/30: Badda Bing! NYPD "Taking Care of" New Parking Placards 11
1/29: Interstate Access, Plenty of Parking at the "Green" Airport 9
1/28: Parking Workshops Set for Queens and Brooklyn 6
1/24: Motorists Dominate UES Parking Workshop 16
1/23: On the Front Lines With "Parking Wars" 10
1/22: Queens Parking Workshop Turns to Talk of Motorist "Rights" 61
1/22: Your Opportunity to Change New York City Parking Policy 4
1/22: Streetfilms: Street Star Christine Berthet 1
1/18: Gridlock Sam: Mayor's Placard Reduction Plan is Step One of Ten 15
1/18: Resolved: More Driving for Teachers, Less for Everyone Else 15
1/17: As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It's Just Parking & Politics 6
1/16: Illegal Parking Now "Legal" for Marty Markowitz 15
1/16: South Bronx Develops Into Yankee Stadium Parking Lot 16
1/15: Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy? 8
1/11: Does Times Real Estate VP's "Joke" Betray Anti-Bike Bias? 13
1/08: Bronxites Pick Parking Over People 0
1/08: At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot 8
1/07: Weingarten: "Teachers Are Not Abusers of Parking Permits" 48
1/03: City Hall to Reduce Parking Placards 20% and Centralize Control 44
1/03: The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking 21
1/03: Kitty Justice: The Thai Solution for Police Parking Placard Abuse 3
December 2007
12/21: Merry Christmas Chinatown 8
12/21: Donald Shoup Plays With Parking Fees and Matchbox Cars 16
12/13: Unlike the Knicks, "New York's Team" Takes the Subway to Work 14
12/12: Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium 47
12/11: Highlights of Yesterday's Traffic Commission Meeting 47
12/10: Shoup on Lehrer 4
12/07: Parking Guru Donald Shoup Coming to Town Monday 3
12/06: New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking 50
12/05: Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook 23
November 2007
11/30: Its Showtime for the DOT Parking Team 32
11/28: New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars 35
11/27: Eliminate the Parking Requirement 65
11/15: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: DOT to Install Sleek New Bike Parking Shelters 46
11/09: 10,000 New Bike Parking Spaces for London Schools 2
11/09: Take the NYC Bike Parking Survey 2
11/06: Hell's Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound 5
11/02: Push for Congestion Pricing Spurs Parking Reform 59
October 2007
10/31: Finally: A Spot to Talk About Parking 0
10/29: Correcting Thursday's MTA Bike Seizure Correction 5
10/25: MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules. 23
10/25: DOT Installs 58 Muni-Meters in Bensonhurst 7
10/24: State Opposes City Plan for Hell's Kitchen Parking 9
10/17: Pricing Advocates Call for Impact Study and New Parking Policies 27
10/17: Parking Reform Alone Won't Solve Congestion 1
10/16: Park Slope Has Its Park(ing) Day 6
10/12: Council Member Addresses Stadium Parking Fee Crisis 9
10/10: Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on "Faulty Assumptions" 22
10/09: City Approves Subsidized Yankee Stadium Parking 15
10/09: Truck Drivers Confusing New Cycle Track for Unloading Zone 80
10/05: Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform 35
10/03: Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup 9
10/03: Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger 10
10/03: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
September 2007
9/28: Eyes on the Street: 34th Precinct Leads by Example 11
9/27: More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle 15
9/24: How Much Potential Park(ing) Space is There Anyway? 22
9/24: StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007 8
9/21: More Park(ing) Day Photos 4
9/21: Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom 4
9/21: Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot? 12
9/20: No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board 0
9/18: City Hopes to Draw Constant Traffic to Subsidized Stadium Garages 1
9/14: D.C. to Establish Bike Parking Requirements 3
9/14: Parking Enforcement is the Killer App 5
9/13: Garages Yield to Human-Oriented Development 4
9/12: Gridlock Sam Offers Four Ideas to Cut Traffic Congestion 16
9/11: Vote Postponed on Yankees Parking Subsidy 2
9/11: Parking Revenue Declining, London Borough Lures Back Drivers 7
9/11: Parallel Parking for Sociopaths 10
9/07: The Bronx Is Burning Over Subsidized Stadium Parking 16
9/06: Bronx Boro Prez Issues Protest at Yankees Parking Hearing 4
9/05: Take Me Out to the Yankees Parking Subsidy Hearing 18
9/04: A Few Minutes of Parking Permit Abuse With Andy Rooney 1
August 2007
8/29: A Crash Course on Driver Safety for Parks Dept. Employees 15
8/22: Streetsblog Commenter Published in Boston Globe 3
8/21: Officer Convicted in Beating Was Handing Off Parking Placard 2
8/16: City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking 1
8/09: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
8/07: Hello, Dolly! 45
8/07: City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility 15
8/06: Parks Dept. Confirms New Employee Parking Policy 0
8/06: Central Park No Longer a Parking Lot for City Employees 14
8/03: Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain 44
8/02: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12
8/02: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0
8/01: City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes 4
July 2007
7/30: Parking Meters: The Congestion Pricing Controversy of 1932 3
7/27: Bike Parking on Steroids 23
7/25: NYC Government Office Cracks Down on Indoor Bike Parking 13
7/20: The World's First Sustainable Parking Structure 8
7/19: Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco 3
7/18: NYC's Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated) 30
7/18: Critical Transportation Reforms Sink With Pricing 7
7/17: Parking Reform: Reduce Congestion & Raise Money Minus Albany 22
7/16: Park(ing) Day is Coming 27
7/16: In Chicago, Parks Funded By Parking Garages 3
7/13: Dollars for Democracy on Brian Lehrer Today 0
7/12: Report: New Parks Dept. Policy to Clip Locks and Seize Bikes 15
7/12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
7/10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1
7/09: Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry? 54
June 2007
6/27: Finally, Market Rates for Manhattan Street Parking 20
6/21: Gov't Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center 3
6/18: David Weprin: The Parking Garage Industry's Valet? 5
6/13: Forever Double-Parked on Google's Memory Lane 0
6/12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0
6/08: Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure 24
6/08: Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg 2
6/06: Eyes on the Street: A Special Lane for Parking Cars 11
6/05: T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative 10
6/01: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26
May 2007
5/29: 86th Street: The Congestion Pricing Battle Line 10
5/23: Jessica is Lappin' up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety 12
5/22: To Some it's a Park, to Others, a Parking Lot 27
5/18: Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941 6
5/18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
5/17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2
5/17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9
5/11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4
5/08: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
5/08: StreetFilms: Berkeley's Bikestation 16
5/03: Residential Parking Permits Spotted in PlaNYC Documents 5
April 2007
4/27: Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London 1
4/23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
4/19: Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards 0
4/17: Queens Residents Oppose Loss of Parking for Bus Rapid Transit 13
4/16: The Parking Dysfunction Meter: Fines Are Five Times Revenue 16
4/12: City's Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring 7
4/12: CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the "Bicycle Problem" 39
4/11: Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan 1
4/11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
4/10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0
4/10: Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan 9
4/10: Eyes on the Street: Inspector Yee Tows His Own 9
4/03: When a Two-Car Garage Just Isn't Enough 11
March 2007
3/29: Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15
3/28: Ungrateful Liberal Scum, "We Do Not Summons Our Own." 35
3/26: Streetfilms: George Washington Parked Here 5
3/20: StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup 0
3/19: Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org 14
3/16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
3/16: New Sheriff in Chinatown 4
3/15: The Power of Parking Policy 4
3/15: UncivilServants.org: Cleaning Up Illegal Permit Parking 13
3/13: "Parking Rock Star" Donald Shoup Plays Broadway 6
3/13: Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown? 3
3/12: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars. 10
3/09: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
3/08: The New York City Parking Boom 14
3/07: $100 for a Year's Worth of Parking 25
3/06: Pay Here to Park for Free 8
3/05: Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon 5
3/01: There's No Such Thing as "Free Parking" 20
February 2007
2/27: No Parking Slope 27
2/21: Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway? 13
2/06: Birth Announcement and Illegal Permit Parking 17
2/05: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63
January 2007
1/18: The State of the City 3
1/11: Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices 11
1/10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20
1/08: A Tale of Two Cities' Parking Policies 6
1/03: Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix 21
1/02: New Year's Resolution: Physically Separated Bike Lanes in '07 49
December 2006
12/22: Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC 8
12/20: Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland 9
12/20: New Places to Double Park on Upper West Side 14
12/20: Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane 18
12/18: Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg 68
12/18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
12/14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
12/14: Rethinking Soho 47
12/06: A Parking Lot Grows in Brooklyn 1
12/01: Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where? 10
November 2006
11/28: Curbside Space Wars 8
11/21: Eyes on the Street: Occupied Territory 15
11/07: Two Doubleparked Traffic Agents, Sunnyside Up 7
11/06: Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps 23
11/02: Rumor Mill: Agencies Will Have to Budget for Parking Permits 8
October 2006
10/26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
10/26: Flushing Meadows: Park or Parking Lot? 2
10/23: They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot 0
10/09: Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane 8
September 2006
9/29: Central Park(ing Lot) 10
9/28: Above the Law: Parking Permit Abuse Study Released 5
9/25: More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran 1
9/25: Street Films: Park(ing) Day San Francisco 0
9/21: Parking it in Midtown 21
9/19: PARK(ing) Day 0
9/14: City Council Votes for Cheap Gas and More Parking 7
9/11: An American Carwolf in London 1
9/07: NYPD Parking Abuse Scandal Widens 65
9/05: Cops Threaten Reporter Over Parking Scandal Report 5
9/01: The Cost of Free Residential Parking 11
August 2006
8/28: Parking Tickets and Requests for Special Treatment 2
8/28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12
8/11: Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt 5
8/09: Can You Name the Town? 18
8/08: Street Films: Gridlock Sam on Govt Employee Parking Abuse 3
8/08: Daily News Busts Govt Employee Valet Parking Racket 0
July 2006
7/27: Why Don't You Take This Opportunity to Drive to Work? 4
7/26: Bedford Avenue Bike Parking Update 0
7/25: Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes 9
7/19: A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem 8
7/18: Fewer Seats But More Cars at Yankee Stadium 2
7/16: Vehicle City 0
7/13: Film Scout Parking Permits Rescinded 3
7/12: Parking Management Workshop - Canal Street 0
7/12: Motoring News Roundup, July 12, 2006 0
7/06: WWJP: Where Would Jesus Park? 3
7/06: Parking Management Workshop - Bronx 0
June 2006
6/29: Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking 0
6/27: Auto-Free New York Monthly Meeting 0
6/16: The $46 Million Parking Perk 9