If we expect people to leave their cars at home, or at a park n' ride, we need to make moving about the core better. We can't put people on trains, let them off, and say, 'good luck!'
Category - Parking
ProJo: Commission meets to discuss possible Garrahy Complex parking garage
A legislative commission began looking Wednesday into whether building a parking garage adjacent to the Garrahy Judicial Complex on Dorrance Street would be a useful public project.
State defiantly moves ahead with surface parking
In spite of Providence Zoning rules and Capital Center rules forbidding it, the State is moving ahead with plans to expand a surface parking lot on the State House grounds and building a new surface parking lot adjacent...
Capital Center Commission Meeting – October 17, 2013
The Capital Center Commission will meet Thursday, October 17 and discuss parking issues near the State House.
Park(ing) Day Providence – September 20, 2013
What is Park(ing) Day? Park(ing) Day is a worldwide event for artists, designers, and citizens to transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks. For more information, visit the global Park(ing) Day website...
WPRI: Is it time for Providence to tax land rather than buildings?
The idea is to shift toward taxing the value of something whose supply won’t change due to tax rates – land – instead of the buildings and other improvements made there. The hope is that doing so would spur development...
Come for the parking, stay for the parking
No, really, you can park here. Isn’t it fabulous!?
Sigh.
News & Notes
Boston. Photo (cc) Kevin Tostado. The Boston Globe: Don’t require more spaces; price curbside ones properly If you give a valuable resource away for free, the inevitable result is overuse and crowding. In the old...
Kennedy Plaza/Circulator Phase 3 Informational Meeting – July 10, 2013
The City will be having an informational meeting about proposed enhancements and reconfiguration of the Kennedy Plaza area as well as details about Phase 3 of the Downtown Circulator project. The Circulator project...
State to pay $3.1 million to buy land for prohibited parking
Image from Google Maps As Ted Nesi reported in his Saturday Morning Post and ProJo reports today, the State Properties Committee has agreed to spend $3.1 million acquiring several parcels on Francis Street across from...
State to study Garrahy Courthouse Garage. Again.
Image from Google Maps Ian Donnis tweeted out a link to the legislation authorizing a new Downtown Garage Commission: Here’s the bill for the downtown garage commission: tinyurl.com/le7bxqh Panel is due to report...
ProJo: ‘Shadow parking’ now a problem on former Route 195 land
"If people can access the parcel, they're parking on it," [Route 195 Redevelopment District Commission Chairman Colin] Kane told the commission Monday night at its regular meeting. "I'm guilty myself."
ecoRI: ‘Free’ Parking is Bundled Bag of Goods
As I look for a campus to get my graduate degree, a surprising factor weighs into my decision: How much am I going to pay for parking? As a non-driver, Rhode Island College may end up charging me the most of all.
Reader Submission: Unpaved Smith Hill
In response to recent discussions on parking at the State House reader Nicolas R. Mariscal submits a Photoshop rendering (above) of what the State House area could look like with better land use planning.
A Google tour of State House surface parking
Do we have an inordinate amount of surface parking around our State House. Let's see what our neighbors and peers look like.
Guest post: Parking reform should start at the State House
The State House is a great place to start reforming Providence's parking crisis. The great map that Jef put up last April shows that the State House contributes considerably to the overwhelming of our downtown space by...
Parking Ban?
Contrary to what you see in this photo of Washington Street this evening, there is still a Parking Ban in effect in the City of Providence, until further notice. [box style=”red”]Update: The Mayor’s...