Showing posts with label parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parking. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Donald Shoup (1938-2025) led the war on (too much) free parking

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 Here's his WSJ obit: Donald Shoup, a Parking Guru Who Reshaped the Urban Landscape, Dies at 86 An economist at UCLA, Shoup said free pa...
Friday, August 29, 2014

A bump on the road to the private sale of public parking spots

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San Francisco orders parking spot auction app to cease-and-desist he City Attorney of San Francisco has sent an immediate cease-and-desi...
Friday, March 16, 2012

SF parking meters

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 SFPark.org  in the NY Times: A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots . Previous posts on congestion pricing and parking generall...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Parking

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I always knew that parking is a sexy topic*, but it takes a first rate journalist like Leon Neyfakh at the Boston Globe to explain clearly t...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Parking meters, old and new

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Technology is coming to on-street parking. The NY Times reports on the changeover: The Last Days of the Old Parking Meter " The city’...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Anti-social claiming of parking spots in South Boston (before snow has started)

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A social norm in South Boston that allows people to reserve public parking spots that they have dug out of the snow is unraveling, the Globe...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

Where the wait for a parking permit is 8 to 10 years

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In Rye, NY, that's apparently how long it takes to get a parking permit at the commuter rail station. The NY Times reports that the rece...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Chicago parking: private metering, public/private enforcement

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The City of Chicago recently sold the right to manage its parking meters for the next 75 years to a private company, for a payment of $1.15 ...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Congestion in the market for parking spaces

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The NY Times has a story called The Year of the Parking Space that touches on many parking related developments in NY. The most interesting ...