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Parking Still a Bargain in Portland
A study reported in the Business Journal indicates that at $15, downtown daily parking is still pretty cheap when compared to other large cities. Likewise for the monthly rate of $185. In related news, Streetsblog has a take on what I think is the same study, and notes how awesome the most expensive cities are.…
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Park by Phone
I had the pleasure/horror of serving as the lead negotiator for the neighborhood in the NW Portland Parking Plan in the early part of the last decade (and I wish more success to the folks who are trying again a decade later). But one thing I got out of that process was an understanding of…
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Bike Parking Disconnect
I spent some fun time this afternoon at the Pedal Nation bike show at the Convention Center. I had noted some tweets yesterday about overflowing bike parking outside, even though event parking had been added. Here’s what I found today, outside the front door and inside the parking structure where bike parking is also provided:…
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Fungible Parking?
I ran across an interesting pair of blog posts last week on the “Reinventing Parking” blog. One asks whether government could tone down the idea of “parking minimums” (parking that is required to be built as part of a new development) by requiring instead that developers simply identify features of their project that could be…
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Park Your Scooter by the Month?
Since the City of Portland introduced SmartMeters (pay stations) for on-street parking several years ago, one of the ongoing complaints is that you can’t securely attach the sticker to a motorcycle or scooter. Someone can easily come along and steal your sticker. PBOT now has an answer, a monthly permit you can buy in lieu…