Showing posts with label Parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parking. Show all posts
Reaction from a Shoup-ista
Yesterday morning, Dr. Donald Shoup hit column 1 in the LA times. Shoup was the feature in an article titled "He puts parking in it's place." In 2 days, the online version has received over 100 comments and over 500 "likes" on Facebook. The comments range from support from the Shoupista army, to attacks on Shoup personally as a hippie and socialist, his ideas and even his jokes. I guess I missed the part in the bill of rights where car owners were given the right to free parking, all the time.
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Parking,
transportation
Shoup 101: SFPark's great introductory video
As many already know, SFPark, thanks in part to a sizable Federal grant, has been transitioning San Francisco parking spaces in 8 neighborhoods to a performance parking model. For those who haven't yet seen it, their site has a terrific video introduction to this concept on a new and improved website.
Or, take a look at the full SFPark.org.
Need to Find a Parking Spot? Google it.
Google has recently released a new mobile app for Android, Open Spot, that gives people a idea of the parking availability in an are. This crowd sourcing app allows people to indicate when they leave a parking spot or walk by and notice a free one. Seekers can then use that data to search a half mile radius from their current location for spots that have been recently marked. Color coding lets users know how recently a spot has been identified as open. The big caveat in the efficacy is in the technological principal the app is based on, crowd sourcing. This app will only be effective if it can amass a substantial number of users much like yelp vs. urban spoon. Fortunately with Google's backing and it's almost certain future integration with Maps it should garner significant attention. But will it be enough to reach a critical mass? That is unclear but it is a novel attempt at trying to alleviate part of the problem with urban parking.Source
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Android,
App,
crowd sourcing,
Google,
Mobile,
Parking,
Software,
tech,
Technology
Santa Monica Parking Experiment
Just published yesterday. Interesting article and a good read about parking issues in Santa Monica.
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Parking
Parking costs make it to Huffington Post
Professor Shoup gets mention in this search to define Cityism. (click here) (via @APA_Planning on Twitter).
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