Category: Parking

  • Dynamically Priced Parking = Free WiFi?

    A Strong Towns podcast this week features an interview with Donald Shoup in which he suggests his usual approach to selling neighborhoods and business districts on metered parking: share the revenue! But he goes on to suggest another benefit. He describes one district in which dynamic pricing was communicated to meters via WiFi. Since the…

  • Pok Pok Parking & Yogi Berra’s Lament

    Andy Ricker, the mastermind behind some of the best chicken wings you’ll ever taste, caused quite a stir this week when he opined that allowing development along SE Division Street without accordingly requiring creation of new parking was, “a really stupid idea.” This is not an uncommon sentiment among people who own retail-based businesses in the…

  • Corruption-Free Paystations

    After the Federal conviction related to Portland’s last paystation contract, the City has embarked on a new procurement for paystations, and now has four different models from two manufacturers installed in the vicinity of SW 3rd and Salmon. They’d love to have you try them and give feedback.

  • Should You Be Allowed to Auction the Parking Space You’re Leaving?

    Via Planetizen: MonkeyParking is a new app that lets you take bids on the on-street parking space you’re about to pull out of. The San Francisco City Attorney is investigating whether it’s legal to make a profit off a public space. I love innovation, but when I read something like this it makes me a…

  • Who Really Pays for Parking?

    The excellent folks at Sightline have looked at recent multifamily construction in Seattle and analyzed the parking use and financing. The conclusion – zoning regulations and bank demands result in more parking being built than needed, and the parking loses money. That means folks are making up the difference in what they pay for housing,…