As parking requirements facilitate the use of cars, total travel increases, public transit use decreases, buildings scoot farther away from each other, density diminishes, central cities go into tailspins and sprawl increases-all of which, in turn, increases the need for more parking.
Putting Parking into Reverse
Professor’s Theories Influence Cities to Reconsider Pervasive Free Parking
You Can’t Spell Subsidy Without B-U-S
A certain radical fringe contends that the benefits of free transit — that is, transit with a 100 percent subsidy (a la schools) — would pay for itself many times over. That might sound a little nuts, except that it’s hard to define a substantive difference between the argument in favor of fare-free transit and that in favor of toll-free roads.
Putting Parking into Reverse: Professor’s Theories Influence Cities to Reconsider Pervasive Free Parking
InTransition Magazine, winter 2009: https://joshrstephens.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Stephens-Intransition-Parking.pdf
Shoup Shows Cities How to “Just Say No” to Parking
Cities that have no money for infrastructure investments, are crushed by byzantine planning codes, or are otherwise skittish about upsetting the status quo now have no excuse not to consider parking reform.
Putting Parking into Reverse
Professor’s Theories Influence Cities to Reconsider Pervasive Free Parking
Transportation Planning Warms Up to Climate Change
Strategies Sweeping and Small
Being Formed to Face Global Emergency
Subway Extension Would Make More than a Token Difference for L.A.
If I’m guilty of anything, it’s hometown pride, except without the real town. The subway might change that. I
An Underground Movement Forms in L.A.
After over a decade of dormancy and a litany of mishaps, civic leaders are trying to get Los Angeles’ famously chaotic public transportation scheme in order, and a focal point of these efforts is the extension of the subway to the Westside, a project whose prospects have, over the past 35 years, wavered between inevitable and unthinkable.
An Underground Movement Forms in L.A.
Supporters See a Window of Opportunity for Subway Extension
Transportation Planning Warms Up to Climate Change
America’s 200 million drivers and their 10 trillion annual vehicle miles traveled pose possibly the greatest collective action problem in human history. Transportation thus may be the great untapped resource—the Saudi Arabia of climate change mitigation.