NJ.com offers a brief history of the parking meter, as Somerville, New Jersey phases out its penny parking meters.
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WSDOT quantifies the GHG reduction impact of sidewalk coverage.
“If you build it, they will come” seems to hold for building sidewalks. A recent report for the Washington State Department of Transportation found that increasing sidewalk coverage from 30 percent to 70 percent of …
Finding a parking space, and more.
Roadify.com, a parking, traffic and public transportation real-time information application for mobile smartphones, won a $10,000 prize from New York City for the best new app. Not only does it help you find a parking …
Parking spaces add 10% to per-mile carbon emissions
From Sean Slone’s blog on recent reports highlighting transportation and the environment: One thing holding back efforts to decrease the number of cars on the road is the availability of lots of free or cheap parking. …
LEED certification for parking garage?
The Chicago Tribune’s architectural writer asks if it is absurd to call a garage “green.”