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