Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2019

Our annual #BlackFridayParking campaign is in its waning hours, but our commitment to end parking minimums is not. If the wastefulness of our parking policies is obvious during the peak hours of one of the busiest shopping day of the year, how much more so during the other 364 days of the year?

Before we get to just a few of our favorite #BlackFridayParking social posts, here’s a recap of our parking-related content from this week:

  • On Monday, we looked at how the movement to #EndParkingMinimums has progressed in the last year. We also heard how a change to Miami, Florida’s parking minimums rules opened the door for incremental development there.

  • On Tuesday, we posted a list of some of our favorite resources from Donald Shoup, the godfather of parking reform. (Don’t tell anyone, but the title came before the article.)

  • On Wednesday, Daniel Herriges wrote about how parking has become the dominant physical feature of the postwar American city…so much so that we often don’t even see it.

  • Earlier today, we posted an episode of our Upzoned podcast in which Chuck Marohn and Kea Wilson discuss whether the call to end parking minimums applies to a region as auto-dependent as Southern California. Then, John Pattison wrote kind of an epic post about a bunch of the ways people are taking back their towns and cities from the “parking void.”

It has been so much fun to see the social posts coming in all day on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Here are a few of our favorites:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Last two…

There are two more thing we want to make sure to highlight.

First, this great thread from David Crummey:

And this great photo from Hamilton, Ontario, which highlights what we could be doing with all that land tied up in parking:

Cover photo via Alex Wall (taken on Black Friday 2019). We endorse his choice of reading material.

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