Description: accessible parking wonkery
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This space has been quiet for a long time as I moved continents, got married, and started engaging more in local urban activism . After a hiatus, I’ve gotten back to work on distilling the basic arguments in favor of parking policy reform into (hopefully) easy to share, easy to understand, yet persuasive graphics. This graphic was originally posted at Reinventing Parking, and I’m happy to say that I’ll be publishing all future efforts there. It seemed like a good idea to consolidate efforts on parking polic
Sometimes data and reason aren’t enough to change people’s minds. For all the level headed arguments against parking minimums, about how current policy restricts housing supply and drives up costs, and about the unfairness of hidden subsidies for drivers at the expense of everyone else, the knee-jerk, emotional response resisting change will always be a powerful force. Those wishing to affect positive change have not only to construct reasoned arguments for it, but to tug on heartstrings as well. That’s the