An image of a person with a pushchair down a residential street near inconsiderately parked cars. The person is wearing striped clothing and walking past a black car. The setting includes brick buildings and a view of houses on a hill in the background.

It's happening! 📢

On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill.

Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq

Looking for parking reform inspiration in podcast form? The Streets and People podcast by Wendy Nash in Australia has at least 9 recent #parkingreform focused episodes. getaroundcaboolture.au/podcasts/

Los Angeles has 0.52 parking spaces per job. Central Tokyo has 0.04.

Somewhat related, but have any architects done work on multifamily housing that can occupy the surface parking of a typical American strip mall without demolishing the commercial structures? Seems challenging, but I bet someone has figured it out.

Meanwhile, abolishing parking requirements has been one of the more successful reforms of the past few years. Developers tried shared or off-site parking. They found that some buyers didn't want parking. Parking lots came online as sites. And pioneering developers created zero-parking typologies.

I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵

Lime glider parked in a autozone parking space

I can respect the boldness of this “chaotic neutral” Lime Glider parking job

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective

Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Parking protected bike lanes seem so vastly superior to the alternative (a strip of paint between parked cars and moving traffic) that I struggle to understand why they haven't been implemented wherever possible.

Doesn't seem to reduce the number of available parking spots, so is it just inertia?

Singapore observations thread, April 16-19 ⬇️

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.

The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Interesting example of motonormative double standards from Germany .

At present, fare evasion on public transport is a *crime* that can land you in prison, not just get you fines.

For illegal parking, however, that is not the case.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Three route alternatives for the south-eastern portion of the ring road are depicted

Buildings to be demolished to make room for the south-eastern portion of the ring road. Three route alternatives are depicted

functional graph of the proposed road network with the express ring(s)

Like most cities during the 1960s, Munich planned to bulldoze an express ring road around its core, with many grade-separated junctions. This plan was dropped in the 1970s, though, and only a small portion North of the center was effectively built.

Split vote eases commercial parking requirements Oak Island Town Council approved a text amendment last month that removes minimum parking requirements in the commercial district.

"Oak Island Town Council approved a text amendment last month that removes minimum parking requirements in the commercial district."

Big cities, small towns: everybody is removing minimum parking mandates.

5/ and then the last major component: ELIMINATE COMMERCIAL PARKING MANDATES.

Want to take a shot on a small business? It's often impossible, because you need to pay for an excessive and arbitrary number of spaces. Want to expand your business? You'll need more parking, too.

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

I think a lot of people who haven't read "The High Cost of Free Parking" cover to cover, which I fear is many of you, don't realize what a strange and wonderful book it is. The ideal of a book: the pure distillation of an interesting mind. RIP Shoup.

This is a common misunderstanding of how traffic management differs in Vienna Convention countries compared to US or Canada.
The main difference it's not the roundabouts, it's the fact that traffic management is based on defining priority streets to which lateral traffic yield to

This will have a notable effect on the amount of cars in NYC.

Portland’s Munjoy Hill area is full of the most delightful corner stores and ACUs imaginable, with flower stores, bakeries, and coffee shops w/in easy walking distance of every street.

Such a wonderful way to live, and none of it would be possible with modern parking mandates.

FIRST ON STREETSBLOG: Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - Streetsblog New York City He's finally trimming New York's 5-o'clock shadow.

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards.

Also:

"The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

KC’s new parking rules prioritize growth for ‘people, not cars,’ officials say “That is going to help unlock a lot of these smaller commercial buildings and opportunities for new small businesses,” one council member said.

“For too long, parking minimums have driven up the cost of housing & made it harder to build the kind of walkable, connected neighborhoods Kansas City deserves. Removing these requirements puts people, not cars, at the center of how we grow our city..."

I think of this graphic every time I see car owners in NYC demand the city government do whatever is necessary to provide abundant and free on-street parking.

Yesterday, Kansas City, MO eliminated minimum parking requirements across much of the city, scrapping an outdated rule that stifled urban vitality, wasted valuable land, and made many of the City’s most beloved neighborhoods illegal to build today.
@urbanlabkc.bsky.social

Last week, Council passed parking decoupling, giving people more flexibility and helping lower the cost of housing over time. Looking forward to seeing how this shapes affordability in Austin. Watch here to learn more.

Washington state Supreme Court removes judge for faking document to get cheap parking - The Daily Chronicle The Washington Supreme Court weighed in on a judge's forging of a document to secure cheaper parking, deciding on Thursday to remove him from the bench. David Ruzumna was working as a pro tem, …

Truly, parking deranges.