Everybody Wants a Spot: Why Free Parking is a Bad Idea
See Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, speak about the critical reasons cities need to reform their parking policies.
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Op-Ed: To Break the Car Culture, Reduce the Number of Parking Spots
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We must amend our land-use, zoning, and on-street-parking policies to eliminate spaces and curtail their creation — fostering a vision of a life centered around people, not cars.
If Americans Paid for the Parking We Consume, We’d Drive 500 Billion Fewer Miles Each Year
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Most parking spots might cost you nothing, but parking is never really free. We just pay for it in ways that are completely divorced from our actual consumption of parking.
Read Excerpts from Donald Shoup’s ‘Parking and the City’
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Donate to Streetsblog SF this week to win a signed copy of Donald Shoup's Parking and the City
Universities Blow $$ on Parking, Neglect Transit and Bike Infra
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California State Auditor report finds that CSU did not do enough to plan alternative ways of reaching campus