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Netherlands Leads with the ‘Bike Apple’
The western Netherlands city of Alphen aan den Rijn shows how bike parking need not be a compromise, nor a sop to advocates, nor even as mundane as a car park. On the contrary, bike facilities can be...
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Election Post-Mortem
The March 2011 election is now history. And boy is it history. We seem to have moved on. Election stories have entirely slipped off the homepage. Incumbents are back in their well-stuffed Lay-Z-Boy...
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High Cost of ‘Free’ Parking (Part I)
Donald Shoup’s argument for rethinking the accommodation of automobiles in urban areas begins with a counter-intuitive claim: free parking is not at all free; in fact, it’s quite expensive. Whether or...
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Beverly Hills Parking Authority is Losing $4 million/yr
A lovely addition to our civic architecture. And it parks cars! Call us biased, but when your Parking Authority loses $4 million per year and faces a $40 million deficit only eight years down the road,...
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‘Whack-a-Mole’ Parking Restrictions Won’t Remedy Poor Policies
The lion’s share of a recent Traffic & Parking Commission meeting was devoted to residential area parking permits. Specifically, how to keep commercial area spillover parking from impacting our...
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We pay a high price for car parking, and one price is aesthetic: we encourage property developers to develop at higher densities than plans allow…if they build extra parking. From the Planning...
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Putting a Price on Cycling’s Renaissance
New York City today is witnessing a long-awaited bicycle renaissance! Spurred on by innovations in traffic management like segregated bicycle lanes and new policies to promote cycling under Mayor...
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