Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parking

Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley

By Melanie Curry | Mar 20, 2014 | 12 Comments

[UPDATE: Here is a link to a video of Professor Shoup’s talk and here is a link to the Q&A portion of the evening.] “Parking is the single biggest land use in any city,” said UCLA Professor Donald Shoup to a packed house in Berkeley last night, “and it’s almost completely unmanaged.” At the same […]

Jaywalking and Parking Tickets: The Livable Streets Litmus Test of 2014

By Damien Newton | Jan 3, 2014 | 10 Comments

Over our end-of-the-year break, there were two stories related to how the city thinks about its transportation needs which kept popping up in the news: the LAPD’s “Jaywalking Crackdown”** and the movement to restructure the city’s parking fees. The two stories were both treated as stories of regular people being harassed by a money hungry […]

City Remains Vigilant on Bus Only Lane Parking Scofflaws

By Damien Newton and Dana Gabbard | Oct 2, 2013 | 2 Comments

To its credit, the City of Los Angeles is working hard to keep the Wilshire Bus Only Lanes (Bike OK!) open for business. Dana Gabbard grabbed this picture yesterday of parking enforcement hard at work. Wilshire, south side of street between Coronado and Carondelet this morning at about 7:51 a.m. The car had a disabled […]

Donald Shoup Breaks Down Two Years of Data From Groundbreaking SFpark

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 8, 2013 | No Comments

Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark. “The biggest surprise I got was that prices went up and down, but overall, they stayed the same. The average price actually declined by 1 percent,” said […]

City Council Allows Parking at Broken Meters, Media Celebrates

By Damien Newton | Jul 31, 2013 | 7 Comments

The public outcry about the city ticketing drivers parked at a broken meter was always a media-created tempest in a teapot. Even the office of Mike Bonin, the City Council Member who wrote the legislation that repealed the city’s 2010 and 2012 ordinances banning parking at broken meters admitted that after the city completed changing […]

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