Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

  Parking in downtown Columbia will look a little different come mid-January. The city’s public works department announced Tuesday it will upgrade nearly all of the city’s downtown parking meters. The project, which comes with a roughly $475,000 price tag, will...
Report: Main Street parking meters always busy

Report: Main Street parking meters always busy

   A man checks his watch after feeding a meter on Main Street on Monday. Driving down Main Street, it’s easy to see that people like to park at the meters, but now Newark officials have the numbers to prove it. The city recently […] Click here to view...
Parking Management for Smart Growth

Parking Management for Smart Growth

Download the PDF Parking is the sacred cow of land uses. It claims privileged status in zoning codes and there is simply too much of it in cities. Previous ACCESS articles reveal problems with minimum parking requirements; show how excess parking harms livability,...
Market-Priced Parking in Theory and Practice

Market-Priced Parking in Theory and Practice

Download the PDF One of the first lessons of economics is that price controls lead to shortages, and shortages lead to queues. Street parking vividly illustrates this principle. Many cities keep valuable street spaces free or underpriced, and as a result they fill up...
Cruising for Parking: Lessons from San Francisco

Cruising for Parking: Lessons from San Francisco

Parking management has been a vexing problem for cities since the invention of the automobile. Among the concerns are traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions caused by drivers searching for available parking—an activity colloquially known as...