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Too much parking, too few residents

A study of New Haven, Connecticut, finds that "the more parking there is in a city, the fewer people are there."

Oct 30 2011 2:56pm
800 million parking spaces can be wrong

A study reveals the environmental damage from storing all of those cars

3 Jan 13 2011 11:33am
New York's variable-price parking program proves a boon to a Brooklyn neighborhood

Higher parking prices at busy times are allowing businesses in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood to serve more customers, a review of the city's Park Smart program finds.

Aug 27 2010 10:35am
Parking and urban vitality: a tale of two cities

A study of Hartford, Connecticut, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, finds that if employers subsidized transit and charged for parking, demand for parking spaces might fall by a fifth.

Mar 31 2010 11:00pm
On-street parking and congestion

Cruising for on-street parking is responsible for about 30 percent of the traffic in central business districts, UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup said in an op-ed piece in the March 29 New York Times. Shoup used the Times article to promote the idea of pricing metered parking at variable rates throughout the day (through trial and error), so that about 85 percent of the curb parking will be occupied at any particular time. This, he argued, can reduce cruising and congestion.

May 31 2007 11:00pm