Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This week, I ran a short training session about parking policy and challenged the participants with four questions that prompted them to examine their park

Parking Reformer Stories of Action and Impact

May 29th, 2024 25m 23s

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This edition of Reinventing Parking was prompted by a recent bonus episode of the War on Cars podcast which featured listener origin stories. Parking Refor

Minimums to maximums: lessons from the UK

Mar 19th, 2024 27m 4s

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? The United Kingdom has been both a bold parking reformer and a parking reform disappointment. But which is the more important story? That's the focus of th

Austin did it. Your city can too!

Feb 27th, 2024 36m 57s

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? On November 2, 2023, the Austin City Council voted to end parking mandates, making Austin Texas the largest municipality in the USA to do so. So far. I ha

Six Surprising Parking Reform Ideas

Jan 31st, 2024 29m 36s

Reinventing Parking is the official podcast of the Parking Reform Network! Why not join? This month I want to share some parking reform ideas that will probably be new to you. There are six ideas, so I only describe each one briefly. What if

Most buildings run their parking badly. Let's fix that

Dec 19th, 2023 41m 7s

My guest this month is an active Parking Reform Network member with unique insights at the interface between the parking owned by buildings and the world of parking reform. Most buildings fail abysmally to manage their parking efficiently. It

Parking reform around the world: a new report from ITDP

Nov 10th, 2023 30m 52s

I spoke with Dana Yanocha about an encouraging, readable and helpful new report from ITDP that focuses on off-street parking reform. "Breaking the Code, Off Street Parking Reform Lessons Learned" is aimed at parking reformers and potential par

We Gamified Parking Reform

Oct 3rd, 2023 36m 14s

Several years ago, I gamified on-street parking management using a board game. It brings home to players the amazing power of parking fees in a surprising and fun way. And the Urban Works Institute in India has adapted and improved the game. S

Is Parking Reform Anti Car?

Aug 28th, 2023 25m 24s

People keep claiming that parking reform and the Parking Reform Network are "anti car". So I thought I should make an episode to try to answer the question, is parking reform anti-car? But, since that’s a loaded question not usually asked in

Powerful Parking Maps

Jul 26th, 2023 30m 27s

This month's Reinventing Parking episode looks at parking lot maps. Parking lot maps might seem an unlikely viral hit but Parking Reform Network's maps of downtown parking across the USA really did make a splash this northern Spring. They con

Parking reform and newly motorizing cities

Jun 21st, 2023 28m 35s

Reinventing Parking this time is 25 minutes of edited highlights from my appearance on the OoruLabs Talking Heads podcast. OoruLabs is an Indian podcast and Youtube channel hosted by Sathya Sankaran and Knerav Kodolikar, who kindly gave permi

Disability, Aging and Parking Reform: Win-Wins and Trade-offs

May 23rd, 2023 31m 33s

Can parking reform co-exist with justice for frail aging people and for people with disabilities? That was a central theme of a Parking Reform Network round table event on "Parking Reform, Aging and Disability" which took place a few months ago

Beijing's escape from parking disaster

Apr 25th, 2023 34m 59s

Ten years ago Beijing's parking problems were among the most extreme I had ever seen. How the situation improved is an encouraging story. I learned about it from the article "How Beijing Is Rethinking Parking and Reclaiming Public Space" by Li

Momentum on Parking Reform

Mar 29th, 2023 35m 35s

This episode of Reinventing Parking is full of encouragement for parking reformers. It's a lively chat with the Parking Reform Network's enthusiastic president, Tony Jordan. I checked in with him to talk about the encouraging progress and mom

Walkable Parking in City Cores

Feb 13th, 2023 26m 14s

If you found this podcast, you are probably interested in parking reform. But what do you know about the idea of "park-once-and-walk districts"? Have you heard of the Walkable Parking mindset on urban parking? These ideas are an important par

Who's been parking in MY street? Insights into residential parking from Liz Taylor

Dec 28th, 2022 19m 44s

I am a great fan of Dr Liz Taylor's research on parking so it was wonderful to interview her recently. We had a long discussion but, for this edition I chose a selection of segments that are mostly about the collision between parking reform and

Is Singapore parking weird like Singapore?

Nov 29th, 2022 27m 30s

Singapore is quite a weird country. I know. I have lived here for more than 20 years now. But is its parking weird too? And is Singapore a parking reform model to copy? These are important questions, since Singapore is often held up as a policy

Oregon's Big Parking Reforms: the Inside Story

Oct 26th, 2022 44m 49s

Oregon recently enacted the most aggressive statewide parking reforms in the United States. The Parking Reform Network webinar about those reforms was such a great "masterclass" on reforming costly parking mandates that we just had to turn it

It's about choice! Edmonton's Open Option parking reform

Sep 22nd, 2022 33m 4s

In mid-2020, Edmonton's city council amazed many of us in the parking reform scene by voting to comprehensively remove minimum parking requirements. Edmonton had a unique name for its reform: Open Option Parking. This month's Reinventing Parkin

Delhi parking: a non-profit initiative

Aug 24th, 2022 31m 40s

This month's Reinventing Parking features an encouraging case of a non-profit organization taking the initiative on parking policy in its home city of Delhi. I spoke with Sonal Shah of the Centre for Sustainable and Equitable Cities (C-SEC), w

Let's end sidewalk parking!

Jul 27th, 2022 35m 16s

Reinventing Parking this time tackles the issue of sidewalk parking (or pavement parking or footpath parking). It features me and several other people from around the world. One lesson is to act quickly if sidewalk parking emerges. Try hard to

How to get parking reform done: the New Zealand story

Jun 9th, 2022 39m 39s

Around 90 percent of New Zealand's people now live in areas where parking mandates have been abolished. This bold step was part of national efforts to tackle one of the world's worst housing affordability crises. The episode is a lively disc

YIMBYtown tackles parking

May 11th, 2022 49m 22s

This episode features edited highlights from an excellent panel discussion on parking reform that took place at the YIMBYtown 2022 conference in Portland, Oregon. YIMBY stands for 'yes in my backyard', referring to supporting housing developme

Surprising Stockholm

Apr 21st, 2022 40m 49s

Daniel Firth surprised me several times in the latest episode of Reinventing Parking as we discussed Stockholm and its parking policies. I learned in December about Stockholm's pricey residential on-street parking. Sharing about that on social

Are parking minimums an endangered species internationally?

Apr 5th, 2022 10m 56s

More and more cities around the world have been abolishing their parking mandates. So should we describe parking minimums as "an endangered species" internationally? I tackled that question in the March edition of the Parking Today magazine. Wi