Reinventing Parking

Paid parking is the most useful tool in parking management and this edition of Reinventing Parking provides 30 suggestions for making on-street parking fees less unpopular.  Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter. Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook.

Jakarta is no parking policy model yet! But middle-income cities everywhere will certainly relate to its parking difficulties and to the reforms it is considering. Paul Barter spoke with Yoga Adiwinarto of ITDP Indonesia about parking policy in Jakarta.  Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter. Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook.

Reinventing Parking #11 is an interview with Fabian Küster, lead author of a report on car and bicycle parking from the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF). It sees minimum bicycle parking requirements as a good thing. For cars, it wants minimums replaced with maximums. Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter.

Paul's guest this month is Tony Jordan, founder of Portlanders for Parking Reform, which is an example of a rare beast - a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to parking policy reform.  Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter.

Embracing Walkable Parking (park-once-and-walk planning) may be much more useful for ending parking minimums than most of us have realized. Parking reformers have a huge opportunity here. Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter.  

Episode 8 is a chat with Matt Lowrie of the Greater Auckland blog about Auckland, New Zealand, and its bold with parking reforms. These include abolishing most of its parking minimums and success with demand-based on-street parking pricing. Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter.

Episode 7 of the Reinventing Parking podcast looks at Mexico City, which abolished its parking minimums in July 2017. There are lessons here for all opponents of minimum parking requirements.  Paul Barter spoke with Andrés Sañudo, who was a key player in the successful campaign in Mexico City to get rid of the parking minimums and to improve parking policy more generally. Learn more and read the show notes here.  Support Reinventing Transport on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter.  

Paul Barter spoke with Jos Nino Notz about parking policy in Berlin, Germany. It is a mixed story. On the one hand, Berlin boldly abolished its parking minimums more than 20 years ago and has strong parking management in the urban core. On the other hand, parking management, especially enforcement, is weak beyond the core. The reasons for this are surprising. This is Reinventing Parking episode 6. For more information see: https://www.reinventingparking.org/2018/10/Berlin-model-or-warning.html

Carlos Felipe Pardo and Paul Barter had a nerdy parking policy conversation as they tried to wrap their minds around some of the surprising features of parking in Colombia. Show notes: https://www.reinventingparking.org/2018/09/colombia-carlos.html

Parking change is a key to improving public space in cities. Paul Barter shares the key points from his talk at a Berlin conference organized by the German sustainable transport thinktank, Agora Verkehrswende. Detailed show notes at https://www.reinventingparking.org/2018/09/parking-public-space.html