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Christian MilNeil

A half-empty parking lot next to several mid-rise apartment buildings, one of which (on the left edge of the photo) is still under construction. In the distance is a large parking garage with the MBTA logo on top. Some railroad tracks – the MBTA Blue Line – are visible through a chain-link fence at left, between the apartments and the parking lot.

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Parking

Even With Tunnel Traffic and Dirt-Cheap Prices, the T’s North Shore Parking Garages Are Mostly Empty This Summer

An evening city street scene on Boylston Street near Copley Square. On the left side of the photo is a busy sidewalk and a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. On the street in front of the restaurant, four cars, three of them double-parked, occupy the multiple-lane street; a food delivery driver is stepping out of one of the cars while a second car is attempting to drive between the others to fit in closer to the curb.

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Elections and Politics

Legislation Aims to Take the Measure of Traffic Impacts From App-Based Delivery Services

An architect's rendering of a new building with a ground-floor space signed "Boston Public Library" and 11 floors of apartments above. The upper floors are clad in green bricks and a small elevated plaza with ramps and small trees leads to the building's main entrance.

Hudson Street Boston Public Library project rendering

Housing

In 2022, Boston Planners Once Again Approved More Parking Spaces Than Homes

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a white car is parked in between two trees planted in the street.

Bologna, Italy, trees in the street.

Accessibility

What Planting Trees In the Street Could Look Like in Boston: Learning From Other Cities

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Legislation

Cambridge Repeals All Minimum Car Parking Requirements for New Buildings

An exterior photo of the new Harvard Engineering School building, next to a protected bike lane. A large group of people on bikes is gathered in the foreground next to a glass-clad bike parking shed while a jogger runs by on the sidewalk.

Harvard Engineering School

Bicycling

A Tour of Boston’s New Bike Parking Rooms

An empty parking lot. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Councilors Vote to Delete Minimum Parking Rules From Cambridge Zoning Code

A rendering of the proposed 5-story apartment building at 3371 Washington Street, which would provide 38 homes for low-income seniors and a new ground-floor space for the El Embajador Restaurant, within a short walk of the Green Street Orange Line station.

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In 2021, Boston Planners Approved More Parking Spaces Than Homes

<p>Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.</p>


Michael Andersen

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End Parking Mandates, Get a Free Bus Pass

School Street in Natick, showing a car parked on the town's new asphalt sidewalk.

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Natick’s New Sidewalks Look Suspiciously Like A Road Widening