Reinventing Parking

Jun 30 2024 53 ep. 31 mins 77

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The parking podcast for urban change-makers. Reinventing Parking is about parking policy but it's for anyone who wants a better city and better urban transport. Intro and outro music "Walking Barefoot on Grass" by Kai Engel via http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

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Parking Mindsets via Four Questions

Jun 30 2024 27 mins

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This week, I ran a short training session about parking policy and challenged the participants with four questions that prompted them to examine their parking assumptions. In this edition of Reinventing Parking I share the questions with you and discuss some lessons we can learn from them. As

Parking Reformer Stories of Action and Impact

May 28 2024 25 mins

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This edition of Reinventing Parking was prompted by a recent bonus episode of the War on Cars podcast which featured listener origin stories. Parking Reform Network President, Tony Jordan, suggested I try something similar here. I sent out an appeal to PRN members and quickly received messages

Minimums to maximums: lessons from the UK

Mar 19 2024 27 mins

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? The United Kingdom has been both a bold parking reformer and a parking reform disappointment. But which is the more important story? That's the focus of this month's episode of Reinventing Parking episode. The nationwide abolition of parking mandates in 2001 and the shift to parking maximums w

Austin did it. Your city can too!

Feb 27 2024 36 mins

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? On November 2, 2023, the Austin City Council voted to end parking mandates, making Austin Texas the largest municipality in the USA to do so. So far. I had a discussion with three of the key people from the Austin Parking Reform Coalition who worked to make it happen. They were Leah Bojo, Jay

Six Surprising Parking Reform Ideas

Jan 30 2024 29 mins

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This month I want to share some parking reform ideas that will probably be new to you. There are six ideas, so I only describe each one briefly. What if we require private off-street parking to report regularly on usage levels? [4:02] Should we turn every decent-sized building and its parkin

Most buildings run their parking badly. Let's fix that

Dec 18 2023 41 mins

My guest this month is an active Parking Reform Network member with unique insights at the interface between the parking owned by buildings and the world of parking reform. Most buildings fail abysmally to manage their parking efficiently. It hurts building owners. It hurts tenants. It hurts residents. It hurts the whole community. Yet most building managers have little clue that

Parking reform around the world: a new report from ITDP

Nov 10 2023 30 mins

I spoke with Dana Yanocha about an encouraging, readable and helpful new report from ITDP that focuses on off-street parking reform. "Breaking the Code, Off Street Parking Reform Lessons Learned" is aimed at parking reformers and potential parking reformers all over the world. Dana, who is research manager for ITDP Global, led the team that prepared the report and was co-author of

We Gamified Parking Reform

Oct 03 2023 36 mins

Several years ago, I gamified on-street parking management using a board game. It brings home to players the amazing power of parking fees in a surprising and fun way. And the Urban Works Institute in India has adapted and improved the game. Shreya Gadepalli and her team have been using the game to great effect in parking reform workshops and parking policy trainings. For this ep

Is Parking Reform Anti Car?

Aug 28 2023 25 mins

People keep claiming that parking reform and the Parking Reform Network are "anti car". So I thought I should make an episode to try to answer the question, is parking reform anti-car? But, since that’s a loaded question not usually asked in good faith, I decided to instead look at a similar but more constructive question: Can parking reform help cities avoid or escape having

Powerful Parking Maps

Jul 26 2023 30 mins

This month's Reinventing Parking episode looks at parking lot maps. Parking lot maps might seem an unlikely viral hit but Parking Reform Network's maps of downtown parking across the USA really did make a splash this northern Spring. They convey a compelling message, with many downtowns having more than 20 percent of their land devoted to parking. That's without even counting pod