Announcements – Parking Reform Network

Meet Our New Policy Director

Etienne Lefebvre — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:32:21 +0000

It’s with great excitement that we officially welcome Daniel Herriges to the PRN team. Daniel rose to the top during a competitive application process and we’re so glad he is joining us now. He will play a key role in working with our partners, growing our movement and accelerating reforms nationwide. Daniel is a lifelong urbanist and advocate for people-centered places.

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Black Friday Parking 2024: Help Us Turn Bad Land Use Into Better Policy

Etienne Lefebvre — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:02:33 +0000

Black Friday is the day that reveals one of the worst flaws in the American landscape: We have way too much parking. To showcase the scale of the problem using social media posts, we are using the hashtag #BlackFridayParking. This year’s campaign brings together more than a dozen organizations, advocates, and influencers on social media to draw attention to how wasteful and destructive parking requirements are marring our landscapes and making our places less productive. Join PRN and Strong Towns in challenging excessive and costly parking mandates!

Meet PRN Board Member – Ann Cheng

Natalie Montanez — Fri, 05 May 2023 17:56:31 +0000

Hello PRN community! What an honor to address all of you as a new member of the board of directors. I am a longtime parking policy nerd activist and transportation consultant and creator of the GreenTRIP Certification program based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I thrive on providing strategic guidance to leaders towards effective, inclusively decided transportation housing and economic access…

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A new way to look at costly parking mandates

Jane Wilberding — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +0000

In 2015, Strong Towns led a landmark campaign in the fight to end costly parking mandates by developing a crowdsourced map of cities that have eliminated minimum parking requirements. Circulating far and wide, this map has been an emblem in illustrating where cities have made progress to prioritize people over cars, and inspires other communities to do the same. The increasing number of…

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Event: How we won parking cash-out for Washington, D.C., and how you can too!

Mike Kwan — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:24:00 +0000

The Parking Reform Network is excited to welcome Cheryl Cort, the Policy Director for the Coalition for Smarter Growth to speak about the campaign for a Washington D.C. bill to require parking cash-out as part of employee commuter benefits. The “Transportation Benefits Equity Amendment Act” passed in April 2020 requires employers who provide free or subsidized parking to also offer benefits to…

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