Paul (parking reform) Barter

@paulbarter.bsky.social

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Paul Barter and David Zipper in Singapore
Important distinction that gets too little attention: private-use parking versus public-use parking. Public-use parking is a better match for walkable urban places than private-use parking. With public-use parking in mixed-use areas, many fewer spaces can meet demand
Image shows an excerpt from the Transport Leader newsletter of 29 Sept 2025 with the top part of an item on "The Waterloo Playbook: How to Build Affordable Light Rail". The text includes a link to Oh the Urbanity's youtube video on this topic.
The image shows the cover of the new "Parking Policy, Strategy and Action Plan for the Chennai Metropolitan Area" published January 2025 by Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA).
Poster for the Parking Reform Network and Wes Marshall webinar "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: What's parking got to do with it?". Shows a picture of Wes Marshall and the cover of his book, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer".
An image of the screen showing Voice Message #10 audio by Donald Shoup on SpeakPipe (a service which allows sending voice messages)
A graph showing that after repealing parking mandates, more than twice as many homes (84 verus 36) will be built on a site (and the same number of parking spaces as before - since the site can only fit 36 in a cost-effective way). Under a proposal for lowered parking requirements 59 homes would have been possible.
Post on X by Jarrett Walker @humantransit: "The right thing to do is always the result of a combination of facts and goals. The term "data-driven" is designed to make you unconsciously accept the goals of the people who bring you the facts."
Sketch by Alfred Twu on page 155 of Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise book: There are four images of a commercial part of a city. Image 1: No parking required (showing a shop that covers the whole lot on a lively street. Image 2: One space per 500 sq ft (showing stores with a small parking lot). Image 3: One space per 250 sq ft (showing stores with more than half the land devoted to parking). Image 4: One space per 100 sq ft (showing stores with much more than half the land devoted to parking and no-one on foot).
Image from car_free_america tiktok account. There are four images of a commercial part of a city. Image 1: No parking required (showing a shop that covers the whole lot on a lively street. Image 2: One space per 500 sq ft (showing stores with a small parking lot). Image 3: One space per 250 sq ft (showing stores with more than half the land devoted to parking). Image 4: One space per 100 sq ft (showing stores with much more than half the land devoted to parking and no-one on foot).
Home page of Reinventing Parking www.reinventingparking.org showing the most recent few posts and episodes.
From parking minimums to parking maximums
Map view of Jakarta via "How dense is your city?" website using the 1km squares option.
Graph of density (population weighted) within 30km of the centres of Jakarta, New York City, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai and Sydney.
Screenshot of the registration page for the Parking Reform Network Member Orientation session for 28 March.
Image of a diagram in Portuguese explaining Sao Paulo's rules about when parking does or does not count as floor area for planning purposes. Below a certain threshold provision level, parking does not count towards the allowed Floor Area Ratio under the zoning rules. But parking beyond the threshold DOES count.
Image of a dense Tokyo neighborhood, with text "Abolish parking minimums! But failing that, copy Japan, where parking minimums are low AND exempt small and medium buildings. This enables sensitive infill development.
Parking is a commodity, not a right. One person says: "I bought a car but the government hasn't given me a free place to park it!" Another says: "I bought an air conditioner, but the government hasn't given me a free house in which to put it!"
Screenshot of the header of the book review at the Greater Auckland website. Guest post by George Weeks.
Join for an hour of action 24 Oct and 31 Oct. Action Playbook: Abolish Parking Mandates. Make an impact by writing to your elected representatives. Your voice matters. Let's make some noise! RSVP via the links.
Screenshot of the top part of the article at https://www.reinventingparking.org/2023/08/is-parking-reform-anti-car.html "Is parking reform anti car? ..."
screen shot of part of the relevant post at Reinventing Parking: Powerful Parking Maps showing the parking lot map of Columbus, Ohio