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Starting Next Month, DOT Will Adjust Citywide Parking Meter Rates for the First Time Since 2011
Citywide, baseline parking meter rates will increase 25 percent, with bigger increases in busier commercial districts. The changes may be large enough to reduce traffic and double-parking.
August 8, 2018
Jacksonville Gets Soaked By Bad Parking Garage Deals
Subsidized parking structures are a bad bet, even in car-centric Jacksonville.
July 31, 2018
Help Wanted: Send Us Your Pictures Of Dangerous Double-Parking By Delivery Trucks
We order everything online, so now we need to change our streets to accommodate all the deliveries.
July 27, 2018
American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage
New research presents credible estimates of the total parking supply in several American cities for the first time, and it's not pretty.
July 12, 2018
NYC Is Littered With Dangerous Parking Lots Like the One Where Luz Gonzalez Was Killed
Narrow parking zones next to the sidewalk put pedestrians at risk, and they're everywhere. Some are even required by zoning.
July 11, 2018
The Sunday Parking Free-for-All on Junction Boulevard
On Sunday, parking meters aren't in effect, people double-park by the dozen, and access to commercial streets gets harder.
July 9, 2018
Tonight: Speak Up for Much-Needed Pedestrian Space in Washington Heights [Updated]
The CB 12 transportation committee has endorsed a plaza proposed for Haven Avenue, but a small number of parking-obsessed car owners, including one CB 12 member, are claiming ownership of the street.
June 26, 2018
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NYPD Street Cheats Paint Their Own Double-Parking Spaces Outside the 110th Precinct
Watch how NYPD has devoured every available square foot for car storage.
June 22, 2018
Street Cheats: The Public Space Theft We Take for Granted
Crosswalk parking is emblematic of how we've let motor vehicles saturate the curb until they encroach on spaces where they're not allowed.
June 12, 2018
Rogues’ Gallery of Street Cheats Endanger People Outside Inwood Park and Playground
An out-of-the-way no parking zone next to the Inwood Hill Park playground has become a hotbed of public space theft.
June 1, 2018
