Posts tagged Parking Districts
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Residential parking permits are valuable. Why don’t cities price them accordingly?
The Prince George’s County Council recently discussed legislation designed to better implement residential parking permits. The bill is a positive step towards better managing on-street parking for the county's growing communities and neighborhoods, but one challenge for any such legislation is addressing how residents perceive property rights, ownership of street space, and what’s “fair.” Keep reading…
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Why trade play space for parking when both are possible?
Many of DC’s elementary and middle schools have both fewer parking spaces than a work site of their size would often have, and less play space per student than experts recommend. However, there is a mutually beneficial solution. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Short-sighted
Congress slights Metro; Lost in translation; Purple path; Imminent deal; Unlimited parking; Housing queue; Heating up; Land, call, ride; Clean up, clean up; And…. Keep reading…
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DDOT’s newest performance parking program will be its best
In May, DDOT will launch its most robust performance parking experiment to date. The program, called ParkDC, will significantly change how people park in Gallery Place: the cost to park a car on some of downtown’s most in-demand blocks will rise or drop according to demand. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Less parking, more sharing
Less parking in the future; Greed may limit parking; Council halts parking passes; Ridesharing approved; Maryland worst for emissions; Redevelopment proposed for Wheaton; Cycletrack sets bad precedents; Plurality support congestion charge; Metro escalators disappoint; And…. Keep reading…
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Leggett: “Isolating revenue” via special districts is bad, unless for parking
Psychological research has shown that people’s brains naturally respond to arguments that support our point of view, but reject almost identical arguments if applied to issues where we disagree. That’s why Democrats think Republicans are hypocrites, and Republicans think the same of Democrats. This also applies to policies about prioritizing walkable versus… Keep reading…
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Montgomery needs transportation districts, not parking districts
Last week, the Montgomery County Council held a hearing on the second leg of their two-part strategy to restore Ride-On bus service cuts. The first part was to raise parking fees in the Bethesda parking district, fees which only rose once in the last twenty years and haven’t kept up with inflation or Metro fares. Next, the Council must approve transferring money out of the parking… Keep reading…
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Montgomery considering Bethesda parking rate increase
The Montgomery County Council is following Transit First!‘s suggestion to shift parking subsidies to restore Ride-On service. According to a Transit First! fact sheet, the Bethesda parking district raises only $8.7 million per year in fees, while spending $12.5 million. Plus, the district doesn’t pay for street construction work, and the garages don’t pay… Keep reading…