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Washington, DC, is poised for big improvements to its performance parking program. Michael Perkins at Greater Greater Washington reports that ParkDC is set to expand “on some of downtown’s most in-demand blocks” in Gallery Place. By resetting meter prices every few months based on the rate of occupied curbside parking spaces, the new ParkDC zone could match […]

Tension between food trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants is common in cities. That’s because food truck businesses are naturally attracted to the same areas as restaurants: places with lots of pedestrian activity. In Providence, the city has responded to pressure from restaurant owners by asking food trucks to stay away from business districts. James Kennedy at […]

California is in the throes of a drought that Governor Jerry Brown called “unprecedented in recorded history.” There are many factors behind the severity of the state’s drought, and one of them is land use. In a prescient post from last year, Jon Mendelson at Network blog Stockton City Limits warned that California’s water crisis was likely to get […]

Traveling on transit with a toddler is challenging enough. But transit agency policies can make the situation a lot worse. Until very recently, Seattle had the kind of rules that made “any long outing with a small child involving buses… suck,” according to Seattle Transit Blog‘s Matthew Johnson, a new father. King County Metro required parents transporting a […]

It might seem like a small thing: reducing motor vehicle speeds 10 miles per hour. But that 10 mph can make an enormous difference for the safety of a street and how comfortable people feel walking or biking there. Bill Lindeke does a great job explaining what he calls “the critical 10” in a recent post at Streets.mn: […]

Build bike infrastructure and they will ride. It’s true just about everywhere, including San Diego. Thanks to bike counters set up around the region, Network blog Bike SD got data showing that cycling has skyrocketed on two streets where the city added buffered bike lanes last year: In late 2012 SANDAG, the region’s planning agency, installed bike counters around […]