Very few poor people drive to work downtown
The Portland city council is considering subsidizing downtown car trips because some downtown commuters are poor.
Policy
A backwards incentive in Portland, where bus rides cost more than parking spaces
When something is more convenient, Jordan points out, we usually have to pay more for it.
As Portland’s housing shortage boils over, its mandatory car-housing policy seems safe
A particular type of expensive machine can almost always be stored for free but every other object in society is expected to pay market rate.
How much should parking permits cost? Four ways the city could find out
Portland is on course to ignore a suggestion from its consultant that elected officials should never set the price of parking.
Task force likes proposal to restrict main-street residents’ curbside parking rights
The goal is to lead developers of buildings on commercial corridors to include more on-site auto parking in their new buildings.
As big bike investments loom, the debate goes on: Which neighborhoods need most?
The debate is familiar. But there might actually be a way to resolve it.
City parking reform proposal would limit apartment dwellers’ access to parking permits
The city described the proposal as “preliminary.”
Large crowd at City-sponsored symposium learns evils of free parking
Parking is too expensive and too valuable for us to conceal its costs inside the price of everything else we buy, he said.
Congressmen Blumenauer and Buchanan introduce $30 million ‘vision zero’ grant programs
Blumenauer and a Republican colleague in the House want to set aside $30 million for Vision Zero grants.
What would bike-friendly auto parking reform look like? Seven ideas
A bike-friendly parking policy would at least prevent Portland from creating future battlefields for itself.
City issues bike parking code violation to Jantzen Beach Home Depot
Bad bike parking options could lead to fines for local Home Depot store.
Portland parking reformers puzzle over how to value bike lanes
Parking wonks have a formula for the right price of auto parking. But what if a street needs something else more?