Posts about Tulsa
Meters everywhere but no money: Tulsa, Oklahoma has shut off many of their parking meters because there's no money to replace the batteries. Hmm, how could they get more money from parking meters? (KOTV.com, Michael P.) (Comment)
Parking from SF to Tulsa: KCBS has an in-depth audio interview with Donald Shoup on parking policy in San Francisco ... Tulsa's parking consultant says it's time to scrap the outdated parking zoning, which requires too much minimum parking for every use and replace it with shared parking. (Tulsa World) (Comment)
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Cheers and jeers across America
Photo from the Associated Press.
- Barack Obama rode his bike for fun. Streetsblog LA writes, "it's refreshing to see a nominee on two wheels who is neither A) biking in the woods, nor B) straddling an $8000 Serotta while clad in spandex." (AP)
- A growing coalition is advocating for replacing New Haven's Route 34 freeway with a boulevard. (Mobilizing the Region)
- Salt Lake City plans to significantly cut its parking requirements. They're not getting rid of them, but it's a start; some people are still complaining, of course. (SLC Tribune via Parking Today)
- Tulsa built an arena but decided it needed no new parking. (Of course, that's because Tulsa already has gobs and gobs of it, but still.) (Parking Today)
- Even New York City blithely approves parking garages in the densest parts of Manhattan. (Mobilizing the Region)
- Los Angeles is still widening freeways. (North County Times via Streetsblog LA)
- Boston is paving over streetcar tracks. Is it still 1958 and I didn't notice? (Switchback)
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Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Amid scandal, don't lose sight of Gray's policy achievements
- Montgomery plans 160-mile, "gold standard" BRT system
- VDOT ignores own data, pushes widening I-66
- DC's parks are 5th best in the nation, says "Park Score"
- Bethesda gets new but terrible bike racks
- DC's divide need not be black and white
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10:00 am Bike-ped safety enforcement hearing
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6:30 pm WMATA Riders' Advisory Council
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