Reinventing Parking

Fayetteville in Northwest Arkansas abolished all of its commercial parking minimums. Benefits quickly emerged but no drama or problems. Fayetteville's story is an excellent reminder that parking reform is not just for large, transit-rich cities. Reinventing Parking this month features a discussion between me, Catie Gould of the Sightline Institute and Quin Thompson, who was one of the city staff b...

This edition of Reinventing Parking features a great four-way discussion with three Brazilians, Clarisse Linke, Hannah Machado and Fernando Franco, to help us understand São Paulo's bold parking reforms in the last 8 years or so. Read all the details here .  Follow Paul Barter on Twitter . Reinventing Parking is now the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network ! Why not join?

The Netherlands is less known for parking than for fostering astonishing levels of bicycle use. But Dutch car parking policies and practices really are well worth your attention. To find out more, I interviewed one of the Netherlands' top parking policy experts, Dr Giuliano Mingardo, a senior researcher at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Don't expect Nirvana. The Netherlands has parking polit...

Reinventing Parking is now the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Our first step is a joint fundraising effort and we could really use your help! Learn more here .  Follow Paul Barter on Twitter .

Waverley council area in Australia has had zero parking minimums since 2018. I interviewed Sara Stace to find out more. Two keys to Waverley's success in nixing its parking minimums with little fuss seem to be:  Before the decision, Waverley already had some experience with parking minimums set to zero in certain parts of the area. Data on the results of this reassured the councillors.  The propos...

Reinventing Parking this time looks at a successful parking reform campaign in Washington DC.  The episode is a lightly edited recording of a Parking Reform Network event on 30 March 2021.  The event featured Cheryl Cort, Policy Director for the Coalition for Smarter Growth which is a non-profit in the Washington DC region.  Cheryl spoke about the long and difficult effort she led to persuade the...

Let me tell you about the new Parking Reform Atlas . It is a project to make it easier for parking changemakers to find noteworthy parking policies and parking reforms from all over the world. Learn more here .  Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon . Follow Paul Barter on Twitter . Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook .

The latest episode of Reinventing Parking features more from Patrick Siegman. This time we discussed on-street parking fee success stories in two California cities, San Francisco and Ventura.  Both have implemented Shoupista-style demand-based on-street parking price setting, with great success.    Learn more here .  Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon . Follow Paul Barter on Twitter . Like Rei...

Patrick Siegman is one of my inspirations as a parking policy changemaker and a skilled practitioner and consultant on parking (and much more). He also has a great knack for communicating about parking policy reform.   My discussion with Patrick focused on the ongoing revolution in off-street parking policies, including the trend to abolish parking minimums, in the heartland of car-dependence, Nor...

"Join the new Parking Reform Network!" was the key message Lindsay Bayley, Jane Wilberding and I had in mind when we planned our discussion for this edition of Reinventing Parking.  But first we tackled links between parking reform and social equity, racial justice and enforcement reform. In light of recent events, we couldn't not talk about them.   Then we turned to parking reform networking.   ...

The Reinventing Parking podcast is back after a few months' break!  The focus this time is a new report from Centre for London, entitled "Reclaim the Kerb: the Future of Parking and Kerbside Management in London". Thanks to my guest, Joe Wills. This report has lessons for parking change-makers all over the world.  Find out more here .  The ongoing pandemic and its impacts get only a brief discussi...

The Japanese approach to parking, despite its uniqueness, has much to teach the rest of us. I (Paul Barter) discussed Japanese parking with Rebecca Clements, who is investigating it as she works towards a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Find out more here . Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon . Follow Paul Barter on Twitter . Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook .

Adaptive Parking aims to be the answer to this question: How can my city defuse real parking problems without making car dependence worse, while fostering liveable cities, while reaping more value for the community from the space now used for parking and while gaining enough public support? Adaptive Parking is a package of parking reform agendas that complement and reinforce each other, bringing t...

This edition of Reinventing Parking offers answers to people's concerns that abolishing parking minimums will cause shortages of on-site parking and that such shortages will cause wider problems. Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter. Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook.  

This month's Reinventing Parking is on minimum parking requirements and draws on relevant highlights from many episodes since the podcast was launched a year ago. I actually created it as an episode last month of my  other  podcast, Reinventing Transport. Find out more here. Support Reinventing Parking on Patreon. Follow Paul Barter on Twitter. Like Reinventing Parking on Facebook.

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 s...

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....

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