Joe Cortright
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How Green Is My Free Parking Structure? Not Very.
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Why does the National Renewable Energy Lab give its employees free parking?
Urban Myth Busting: Congestion, Idling, and Carbon Emissions
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Increasing road capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will backfire.
Comparing the Price of Parking Across U.S. Cities
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This article was cross-posted from City Observatory.
How much does it cost to park a car in different cities around the nation?
Today, we’re presenting some new data on a surprisingly under-measured aspect of cities and the cost of living: how much it costs to park a car in different cities. There are regular comparisons of rents and [...]
Sprawl and the Cost of Living
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Cross-posted from City Observatory.
Over the past three weeks, we’ve introduced the “sprawl tax”—showing how much more Americans pay in time and money because of sprawling urban development patterns. We’ve also shown how much higher the sprawl tax is in the US than in other economically prosperous countries, and how sprawl and long commutes impose a [...]
Lobbyist Holds Up Spectacular Example of the Futility of Widening Highways
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Crossposted from City Observatory.
Here’s a highway success story, as told by the folks who build highways.
Several years ago, the Katy Freeway in Houston was a major traffic bottleneck. It was so bad that in 2004 the American Highway Users Alliance (AHUA) called one of its interchanges the second worst bottleneck in the nation wasting 25 [...]