What if you could auction off the right to park a car in front of your home?
If you didn’t need it, you could sell it to someone who does.
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Wonk Night kickstarts effort to reform Portland’s bike parking code
21) Require different-colored markings around bike racks to clarify where the parking space ends.
Portlanders prepare for Park(ing) Day party
“We’re taking all of the parking spaces on SW Stark between 10th and 11th and turning them into extra bike parking, ping-pong tables, public parklets and outdoor seating for the nearby restaurants.”
Bikes help ‘Pickathon’ build a city of music just outside Portland
One of the most interesting things about Pickathon is that, befitting a farm-based festival that’s so freakishly close to the big city, it makes a concert series in the countryside feel, in the best sense, urban.
‘Flex parking’ gives space to bikes and cars
Reserved parking for bikes in the street — but only for part of the day.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) This post is part of ongoing coverage from Europe. Read more stories from my trip here. You might have a perception that everyone bikes in Copenhagen, or that the City has carte blanche to put cycle tracks … Read more
Commissioner Fritz on Portland’s “low-car” apartment debate
Apartments without car parkingare springing up all over town.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Other than her unfortunate position on bike share (which she ultimately supported), Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz isn’t known for her record on transportation policy. Even so, there have been stirrings this week — thanks to results of a survey of city hall … Read more
As more ‘street seats’ pop up, thoughts about access impacts
New ‘street seat’ on Mississippi Ave makes a future bikeway hard(er) to envision.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Two new ‘street seats’ installations have popped up around Portland recently. The City of Portland program allows cafe owners to pay for a permit (along with other fees) and then install a patio seating structure in the street. Instead … Read more
Editorial: Portland’s parking problem
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The issue of new apartments being built in close-in neighborhoods without (or with very little) auto parking has been making headlines in Portland recently. I’m glad to see this story getting the attention it deserves. Portland has a parking problem and the first step to fixing it is awareness that it … Read more
Michigan Ave bike boulevard saved! PCC approves underground parking garage
Rendering of plans. New parking garage is in upper left, N. Killingsworth St. is in lower right. Portland Community College has approved plans for a new parking garage at their Cascade campus in North Portland — and it won’t be the four-story, $9 million structure that many people (including myself) were concerned about due to … Read more
PCC Cascade eyes multi-level parking garage on Michigan Ave
PCC has determined that the corner of Michigan and Killingsworth would be the best location for a multi-story parking garage.(Photo © J. Maus) Portland Community College’s Cascade campus is considering the construction of a four-story parking garage on the northeast corner of N Michigan and Killingsworth. The project is part of district-wide expansion plans funded … Read more
Portland and parking lots: ‘For the love of cars’
“By the 1970s, less than thirty of the two hundred seventy… buildings downtown remained…When did Portland start to trade its most unique built feature for acres and acres of pay by the hour asphalt?” — Dan Haneckow, historian A recent post on local historian Dan Haneckow’s Cafe Unknown blog, delved into a sad part of … Read more