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Park sign. CC image from Pixel Jones. We don’t manage our limited parking resources very well. However, that leaves us lots of room to improve our policies. A recent Freakonomics podcast entitled ‘Parking is Hell’ provides a nice entry-level synopsis of the challenges involved in using market forces to better manage this valuable resource. The podcast Continue reading Managing on-street parking: zoning is not the way CC image from Yutaka Tsutano Rail to Dulles: MWAA Board member Robert Brown suggests eliminating the Dulles Airport rail station and replacing it with a people mover to connect to the Route 28 station as a means to save costs. Yonah Freemark finds the concept intriguing, offering some operational considerations that could make it work. However, Continue reading Links: iPhones and airports There’s been a horde of great parking posts in the last few days: First, Jarrett Walker documents San Francisco’s new adventure in market pricing for on-street spaces: The goal is to ensure that there’s always a space available, so that people stop endlessly driving in circles looking for parking. People will be able to check Continue reading Parking, lots and lots of parking! The New York Times’ oil map now includes a close-up of the landfall area around the Gulf Coast. In Sunday’s Washington Post, Ezra Klein provides some much-needed context as to the true cost of oil, and in turn the gasoline we buy to power our cars. The key part is framing the overall cost in Continue reading The true cost of gasoline Excuse my timing on this, as this doesn’t leave much weekend to play with – but here are some items worth noting from the previous week or so: Streetcars bridge the gaps: Yonah Freemark has an excellent post on DC’s evolving streetcar network and its ability to fill the gaps in Metro’s network. Yonah’s excellent visuals Continue reading Weekend reading I’ve got a couple of articles I’ve been meaning to write about for a couple of days. First, the New York Times has a nice piece on how cities are losing out on their fair share of the stimulus money. “If we’re trying to recover the nation’s economy, we should be focusing where the economy is, which Continue reading Cities Getting the Shaft Paul Krugman takes note of Joe Biden’s recently souring perceptions of the economy, as well as the fact that it appears another stimulus package would be a nice boost right about now: But never mind the hoocoodanodes and ayatollahyaseaux. What’s important now is that we don’t compound the understimulus mistake by adopting what Biden seems to Continue reading Links – Stimulus Package |
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