Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Parking

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.

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

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 14, 2023 | No Comments

Because app-based food delivery services operate with very little oversight in Massachusetts, it’s difficult to estimate the scale of their impact.

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.

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

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 1, 2023 | No Comments

In spite of the city's pressing housing shortage and ambitious climate goals, which call for fewer cars on Boston's streets, the BPDA's project approvals for 2022 include more parking and less housing compared to 2021.

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

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

By Grecia White | Nov 25, 2022 | No Comments

As the effects of climate change begin to worsen, replacing heat-absorbing pavement with new trees can help make a difference toward expanding our urban canopy when space is limited.

Cambridge Repeals All Minimum Car Parking Requirements for New Buildings

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 25, 2022 | No Comments

The new zoning rules have been in the works since April, when co-sponsors Burhan Azeem, Quinton Zondervan and Marc McGovern passed a policy order calling on city staff to draft new zoning language that would eliminate minimum parking requirements from city laws.

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.

A Tour of Boston’s New Bike Parking Rooms

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 13, 2022 | No Comments

Boston's new bike parking regulations ensure high-quality bike parking facilities in new developments, but they have little influence in lower-income neighborhoods where there are still significant gaps in access to secure bike storage.

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

Councilors Vote to Delete Minimum Parking Rules From Cambridge Zoning Code

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 7, 2022 | No Comments

In a committee meeting earlier this week, a majority of City Councilors endorsed a policy order calling on the city to eliminate minimum parking requirements from its zoning rules. The policy order was initiated by freshman City Councilor Burhan Azeem, who was inaugurated to the Council in January after focusing extensively on housing and transit […]

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