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As a driver, I want physically separated lanes for bikes As a pedestrian, I want physically separated lanes for bikes Also as a cyclist, I want physically separated lanes for bikes

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 18h

Single-story parking garages IMMEDIATELY next to a subway entrance in one of the most in demand neighborhoods in the world (Park Slope, Brooklyn) seems like a tremendous policy failure?!

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 7h

"On weekdays, there are typically over 500 available parkade spaces across all of the parkades." #yyj

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 9h

Parking reform works best when it solves problems people already care about: Housing. Small business. Downtowns. Adaptive reuse. Transportation choice. Public space. Have a recent local parking reform win? We want to hear about it.

Campaign poster arguing parking reform solves bigger problems—lists Housing, Small Business, Downtowns, Adaptive Reuse, Transportation Choice, and Public Space—over a bustling city park scene with a fountain, trees, lampposts, and people walking and sitting.

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone in the room agreed: a 1916 garage in Bed-Stuy has zero historic value. Yet replacing it with 13 family apartments near the A/C at Utica Ave just got sent back by Landmarks for another round of revisions. Read my full Substack breakdown 👇 danieltrubman.substack.com/p/landmarks-...

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Landmarks Asks for Changes to 13 Apartments Replacing a Bed-Stuy Garage

Everyone agreed the 1916 garage can go. Its replacement is in for a second round of revisions.

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Paul (parking reform) Barter @paulbarter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am sad to hear of your loss, Catie. Warm wishes and my condolences.

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The standard NIMBY talking point that allowing parking flexibility and housing choice is “one-size-fits-all” but mandating 2 acre lots on every inch of town is local freedom is so wild

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LOCAL CONTROL. NOT CENTRALIZED MANDATES.
Families in Fairfield and Trumbull know what's best for our communities.
Hartford shouldn't dictate local zoning, force development that strains our infrastructure, or impose unfunded mandates that drive up property taxes. And decisions about speed and mass surveillance cameras should be made transparently. It's time to put local residents back in control.
That's democracy!
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not if you live in a walkable neighbourhood!

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Following online discussions, one of the number one complaints is about multiplexes not having parking. But — If you have parking on your property, why do you care if they park on the street? And if you don’t have parking on your property, how can you complain that they don’t either?

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'We have to step in': Alberta orders Edmonton to roll back its infill policies

The Alberta government is set to introduce province-wide rules limiting infill development while mandating Edmonton to roll back its bylaws.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Parking mandates are arbitrary nonsense. Because parking is conventionally accepted as a "concern" parking mandates can be wielded to discourage "undesirable" land uses... whatever those might be to a particular community. its.ucla.edu/2026/09/28/p...

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Parking policy can mask anti-Muslim discrimination in mosque development - UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

New research shows that disputes around parking during the urban planning process are disproportionately used to fight the construction of mosques across the country.

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 09/10/2026

Before building more parking, ask: Where is demand highest? When are spaces full? Who needs the curb? Are nearby spaces unused? Could better management help? Good parking policy starts by understanding the problem before prescribing the answer.

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Paul (parking reform) Barter @paulbarter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hi Perry, you asked in 2024, so you may have found them already. But looks like there is now a YIMBY Adelaide group yimbyadelaide.com I am originally from Adelaide (now in Singapore), so also interested to connect with other Adelaide urbanism people!

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YIMBY Adelaide

YIMBY Adelaide is the local voice for more homes, better choices, and a fairer city.

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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is wild to see -- sort of the opposite of the situation in the US politics w/r/t cities and states

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Edmonton has a lot going for it, including good public transit, one of the best urban parks in North America, and a growing number of protected bike lanes. But the last thing it needs is *more* parking and sprawl. This is just culture war nonsense that won't help anyone.

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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tragic Edmonton did one of the most comprehensive studies of parking lot occupancies I’ve ever seen. I used it all the time to make the case for citywide reform as occupancy rates had no correlation with geography.

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Todd Litman @toddlitman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Transport planning is broken; here's how to fix it. Stefan Gössling, Bert van Wee, Todd Litman, Karel Martens, Kees van Goeverden, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen (2027), “Transport Cost-Benefit Analysis: Critical Evaluation and Improvement” Transport Policy (doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...).

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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least it’s a rare acknowledgment that NYC’s bike lanes are routinely parked up

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good. Too often we give pablum about getting people to take alternative methods other than driving, but the number one way we do that is appropriately cost options. If you keep parking free or cheap, people will avail themselves of it. They are acting rationally unless you change the equation

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026

New York City car owners who refuse to pay for off street parking are a mystery to me. If you want a car oriented lifestyle with easy parking and close proximity to urban density, Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey are available to you.

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Jordan @jlatchford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Underground parking now averages $73,000 per space and aboveground parking $52,000, up roughly 50 percent since 2012 after adjusting for inflation. cayimby.org/blog/still-w...

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Still Want Free Parking? That’ll Cost $73,000 - California YIMBY

Housing costs have risen sharply across the U.S. in recent years, prompting cities to examine rules that drive up construction costs. One long-standing and costly rule: parking mandates. A new UCLA a...

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm struck by how people who fight tooth and nail against removing a single parking spot because "seniors and people with disabilities" never seem to bring the same level of passion for making buses more frequent, reliable, or speedy People too old, disabled or poor to drive are invisible to them

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 08/10/2026

Drivers literally kill over parking spaces. Maybe kids on ebikes are not the problem here.

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 08/10/2026

To figure out how many vehicles Americans actually want, and what types of vehicles, we should abolish minimum parking mandate nationwide. Because we lack a free market for automobile storage, we cannot determine what Americans would freely choose.

A PowerPoint slide titled "minimum parking mandates increase automobile ownership, traffic and pollution." The slide reads: "University of California scholar surveyed residents of 2654 homes and 197 San Francisco project. Residents had been randomly assigned to homes with or without on-site parking. They concluded: "residences with more on-site parking induce more automobile ownership.
Buildings with at least one parking space per unit have more than twice the car ownership rate of buildings that have no parking."
Source: Millard-Ball, Adam, Jeremy West, Nazanin Rezaei, and Garima Desai. “What Do Residential Lotteries Show Us about Transportation Choices?” Urban Studies 59, no. 2 (February 2022): 434–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098021995139

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. So WE need to be repeating the TRUTH a lot more than we do. (Did we mention that repetition works?) #UrbanTruth

White text on black background. Text reads “the single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” – FrameWorks Institute. Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 07/10/2026

Time for Woollahra to share. Sydney YIMBY Committee Member Dom Behrens in tomorrow's SMH, bringing much needed facts to a discussion desperately in need of it

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Expand congestion pricing. Implement ULEZ and ZEZ. Low traffic neighborhoods. And just take the parking and do something with it that benefits people. We can do it. We have to.

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 08/10/2026

Different parking problems need different tools. Pricing. Permits. Loading zones. Time limits. Wayfinding. Good policy starts by identifying the actual problem, not prescribing the same answer everywhere. That’s the idea behind PRN’s Parking Cookbook. parkingreform.org/resources/co...

Informational poster urging readers to match parking problems with tools, showing six options—Pricing; Shared parking; Permits; Loading; Time limits; Wayfinding—each with a simple icon and a callout to the Parking Cookbook resource.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think people would be less likely to buy large vehicles if it was a huge pain in the ass to drive them here, especially in cities. Higher gas prices are part of it. But there should be extra fees and taxes based on weight. Parking your giant Suburban should be incredibly difficult. etc.

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 07/10/2026

Every community shouldn't have to rediscover parking reform from scratch. PRN connects local reformers with research, examples, tools + people who have already done the work. Help build the network, join today! parkingreform.org/join/

Collage of community members and speakers at Parking Reform Network events—panels, presentations, street outreach, and social gatherings featuring PRN-branded materials and a visible "Sponsorship Opportunities" poster.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a general rule, if you build your city such that there is plentiful parking near anything, you will find yourself in a city where almost nothing is worth visiting

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

seeing NYC politicians fucking *brag* about building less housing and more parking in a lot *right next to the subway* is going to drive me insane

Staples Rezoning: Results
STATEMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
KAYLA SANTOSUOSSO
For the last several months I have been in negotiations with the developers for the Staples property. While this is likely one of the last rezoning votes I can make in Bay Ridge, negotiations were still heavily shaped by the charter changes that take effect in January.
The developers made clear that if the Council did not approve a modified project, they would take advantage of the new rules to resubmit at their original building - or an even bigger, denser building - for expedited approval and with no wins for our community.

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Raven Campbell @ravenmcampbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This facebook comment is an odyssey, and may warrant a close reading of a man who thinks he's being a feminist ally by defending street parking.

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"This is a timely book for Auckland. As our city becomes denser, its streets need to work harder. Car parking, which may previously have worked as a free-for-all, must now be managed deliberately." Guest post/ book review by @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/07/b...

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Book Review: Rethinking Parking - Greater Auckland

Today’s guest post is a book review by George Weeks, of

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Keep Dallas Paved.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kid’s math homework. What’s the perimeter of the parking lot? Too big little dude, lol.

Math problem diagram with 3 small buildings and one large parking lot.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These battery fires are becoming one of the first things people associate with e-bikes. And there’s little awareness that they’re almost entirely due to cheap, uncertified, off-brand batteries and bikes. Not regular companies with certified batteries.

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Toronto hit with 108th lithium battery e-bike fire of year, fire chief says

YouTube video by CTV News

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's more than a little contradictory to say that you're worried about the safety of kids if a building for 80- and 90-year-olds is built across from a school, and then demand that the building must have parking for the residents.

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's happening here? Maybe something changed part way through 2023 on urban/residential 30mph roads! I wonder if it could be that from Sep 17th 2023 95% of roads with a 30mph limit were changed to 20mph. #20splenty making your place an even better, safer, quieter, fairer place to be!

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 05/10/2026

If you are wondering what progressive policy reforms actually increase housing supply, here are three to get you started: 1️⃣ Charge the right prices for curb parking. 2️⃣ Return the parking revenue to the blocks where it is generated, to pay for public services. 3️⃣ Remove minimum parking regulations.

A PowerPoint slide that reads:
Three parking policy reforms
1. Charge the right prices for curb parking.
2. Return the parking revenue to the blocks where it is generated, to pay for public services.
3. Remove minimum parking regulations.

Source: Professor Donald Shoup, University of California Los Angeles

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Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the way. Passing something called "rent control" is extremely politically popular. Channel that popularity into good, non-harmful policy with an anti-gouging law that allows modest increases, stability for existing tenants, and a reset to market rate when tenant leaves (vacancy decontrol).

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Todd Litman @toddlitman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Information about a terrific new guide, "How to Design for Cars in People-Centred Places" (happycities.com/projects/peo...) by my friends at Happy City. It highlights benefits of walkable cities, including various benefits to motorists and cites my research. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/05/w...

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Walkable Cities Can Make Life Better for Drivers, Too — Streetsblog USA

Walkable cities are even better for drivers than ones designed with only the needs of motorists in mind — and in order to win, advocates for livable streets must embrace targeted strategies that make ...

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 06/10/2026

A parking rule can decide whether a project works. More required parking can mean more land, higher costs, fewer homes, or no project at all. Parking requirements aren't just transportation policy. They're development policy too. Learn more at parkingreform.org

Graphic arguing parking rules shape project feasibility: side‑by‑side comparison shows "without mandate" a compact infill building fitting a corner lot, while "with large parking requirement" the site becomes a surface parking lot with a smaller building; includes call-to-action parkingreform.org.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to say what is scarier, this kinda shit or maybe having to park 1/2 a block further from your house than you want to.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“We need to add 800 spaces downtown in the next 10 years, or — catastrophic disaster,” said Andrew Fox, owner of several downtown restaurants. “When I say downtown, I mean downtown.” Why not add 800 (or many more) apartments instead? www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

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Hutzell: 106 years later, Annapolis is still trying to fix its parking problems

COLUMN | A century of arguments, amendments and angst over parking has gotten Annapolis where it is today, still unhappy with the irrefutable fact that a 17th-century city center struggles to cope wit...

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Most of my customers drive and complain about how hard it is to find parking" Turns out, nope!

Slide showing that 66% of people walk bike or use transit to get to the Junction

Slide showing that 61% of people walk bike or use transit to get to Upper Queen Anne

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2018 I said cities had about ten years to price private driving before AVs arrived. It's 2026. The robotaxis are showing up on schedule. I'm still for the fleet model including transit, and still waiting on the cities. www.pps.org/article/wher...

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Where Do I Park My Autonomous Car? The Future of Mobility at Walk/Bike/Places

This September’s Walk/Bike/Places in New Orleans will tackle the tough questions of adjusting to a more autonomous future.

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You love to see it. Downtown Bridgeport slowly (painstakingly slowly) stitching itself back together after highways and parking lots devastated it www.ctpost.com/news/article...

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Bridgeport to sell long-vacant downtown land for $250,000 for new apartment building

Bridgeport purchased the pair of downtown lots over 25 years ago and until now has been unsuccessful in having then redeveloped.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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