About 2 percent of all car commuters travel 90 minutes to work, same as a decade ago. We’ve always been clear about our views on mega commuters, those traveling an hour and a half or
Pity the poor Super Commuter Read Post »
Pricing parking drives demand for ride hailing services Ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have been highly reluctant to share data about their services with cities. In California, the state Public Utilities Commission has pre-empted
Prices Matter: Parking and Ride Hailing Read Post »
Increasing road capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will backfire Time for another episode of City Observatory’s Urban Myth Busters, which itself is an homage to the long-running Discovery Channel series “Mythbusters” that featured co-hosts Adam Savage and
Urban myth busting: Congestion, idling, and carbon emissions Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Downzoning won’t make housing cheaper. Chuck Marohn of StrongTowns notes that land that’s zoned for apartments generally commands higher prices than nearby land zoned for single family homes.
The Week Observed, June 23, 2017 Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Urban Myth Busting: Idling in traffic and carbon pollution. There’s a frequently repeated, just-so story about carbon emissions: if we didn’t spend so much time stuck in stop-and-go
The Week Observed, June 30, 2017 Read Post »
The “commonly accepted” 30 percent standard for judging housing affordability leaves out transportation and location At City Observatory, we’ve long been dissatisfied with commonly used measures of describing housing affordability. There are lots of reasons
You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs Read Post »
