Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Parking

An empty parking lot. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Councilors Vote to Delete Minimum Parking Rules From Cambridge Zoning Code

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 7, 2022 | No Comments

In a committee meeting earlier this week, a majority of City Councilors endorsed a policy order calling on the city to eliminate minimum parking requirements from its zoning rules. The policy order was initiated by freshman City Councilor Burhan Azeem, who was inaugurated to the Council in January after focusing extensively on housing and transit […]

A rendering of the proposed 5-story apartment building at 3371 Washington Street, which would provide 38 homes for low-income seniors and a new ground-floor space for the El Embajador Restaurant, within a short walk of the Green Street Orange Line station.

In 2021, Boston Planners Approved More Parking Spaces Than Homes

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 16, 2022 | No Comments

Over the course of 2021, the BPDA approved 71 new development projects that include a combined total of 17.1 million square feet of real estate inside the city's boundaries.

End Parking Mandates, Get a Free Bus Pass

By Michael Andersen | Feb 3, 2022 | No Comments

Great programs like this one in Minnesota don’t happen when big parking lots are mandatory.

School Street in Natick, showing a car parked on the town's new asphalt sidewalk.

Natick’s New Sidewalks Look Suspiciously Like A Road Widening

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 31, 2022 | No Comments

A repaving project that affected several narrow residential streets in downtown Natick is causing some headaches for residents, because motor vehicle owners are mistaking the project’s new asphalt sidewalks as new on-street parking areas. “People are parking right in the sidewalk literally at the foot of my front steps, and we can’t get out (of […]

Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots

By Kea Wilson | Dec 30, 2021 | No Comments

At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.

Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 22, 2021 | No Comments

"There’s a lot of traffic engineering that’s very data-driven, but it’s often data-driven in ways that are focused on vehicular movements and speeds and capacity... And sometimes that comes at the expense of asking, ‘What’s it like for a person who’s walking to the bus, and waiting on the corner for that bus?’ We don’t have metrics for that."

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