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Editorial: Why Raise Fares When Metro’s Building Even More Free Parking?
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an editorial asking Why Raise Metro Fares While Giving Away Metro Parking? At the time, I totaled parking for Metro's BRT and rail lines at 19,450 parking spaces. Despite Metro's plan to increase transit fares, the agency has no plan to increase parking charges. Metro gives more than 9 out of 10 spaces away for free. I did a conservative estimate of Metro's parking revenue potential to be at least $3.5 million per year.
April 15, 2014
Editorial: Why Raise Metro Fares While Giving Away Metro Parking?
Metro is proposing to increase, or restructure, its $1.50 base transit fare to $1.75 later this year, with further increases planned in 2017 and 2020. Metro anticipates that this will increase its fare recovery - the percentage of operations costs that are paid for by fare revenues - from 25 percent to 33 percent. Metro foresees that this fare increase will "deflect" riders; a small percentage of people who currently take Metro will opt not to ride.
March 30, 2014
March Transpo Committee Recap: SRTS, Counts, Parking and Commish Bayne
Yesterday's Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee meeting featured a number of livability issues that deserve more in-depth attention: Safe Routes to School, bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts, parking privatization, and more. SBLA will do a brief re-cap, and will track and report on these issues more in the future.
March 27, 2014
Digital Cities, Smarter Transportation – Conference Highlights
Yesterday, Streetsblog L.A. attended Digital Cities, Smarter Transportation, a one-day conference on "technology and the future of mobility, cities, and regions" hosted by the UCLA Lewis Center and the UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies. Here are a few highlights from the proceedings:
March 21, 2014
Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley
[UPDATE: Here is a link to a video of Professor Shoup's talk and here is a link to the Q&A portion of the evening.]
March 20, 2014
Jaywalking and Parking Tickets: The Livable Streets Litmus Test of 2014
Over our end-of-the-year break, there were two stories related to how the city thinks about its transportation needs which kept popping up in the news: the LAPD's "Jaywalking Crackdown"** and the movement to restructure the city's parking fees. The two stories were both treated as stories of regular people being harassed by a money hungry government.
January 3, 2014
City Remains Vigilant on Bus Only Lane Parking Scofflaws
To its credit, the City of Los Angeles is working hard to keep the Wilshire Bus Only Lanes (Bike OK!) open for business. Dana Gabbard grabbed this picture yesterday of parking enforcement hard at work.
October 2, 2013
Donald Shoup Breaks Down Two Years of Data From Groundbreaking SFpark
Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark.
August 8, 2013
City Council Allows Parking at Broken Meters, Media Celebrates
The public outcry about the city ticketing drivers parked at a broken meter was always a media-created tempest in a teapot.
July 31, 2013
How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica
Editor's Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, UCLA Urban Planning Professor Donald Shoup. You can read the report in its entirety here.
July 23, 2013