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Law and Order and Parking Lots
There’s no better measure of our perverse relationship with cars than the fact that nearly every city and town in North America has laws requiring drinking establishments to provide parking, and yet roadside memorials to victims of drunk driving are mostly illegal. A single year of alcohol-impaired driving kills more Americans than the last decade of war has, but our land use codes practically encourage driving home from taverns. Bar...Read more » -
Why Love Oregon?
Ask people what’s great about Oregon and you’ll get hundreds of answers (from bamboo bikes to the Country Fair to its vote-by-mail system). At Sightline, there’s nothing we love more than policies that remove the niggling obstacles that keep people from making smart, sustainable choices. So here’s an update on a few ideas we’ve been following, and a couple of reasons to love Oregon a little more. This week, the...Read more » -
Sharing Your Car (in Oregon)
Oregon could become the next state to pave the way for peer-to-peer car sharing companies, which allow people to rent out their personal vehicles when they’re not using them (which is usually more than 90 percent of the time). It’s a common sense and entrepreneurial idea that we’ve championed here at Sightline for a long time. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you need to rent a car for a...Read more » -
Pimp Your Ride III, Oregon Edition
We’ve been talking for years about the concept of personal car sharing, which allows a car owner whose vehicle sits idle most of the time to rent it out to someone who needs to run errands on four wheels. (As we’ve described it before, think of it as plugging your car into the Zipcar network when you’re not using it.) It’s an entrepreneurial idea with lots of benefits—reducing pollution and...Read more » -
Free Parking Versus the Free Market
Conservative Northwest think tanks, I am calling you out. I want you guys to talk about parking policy. Yeah, you heard me: parking policy. By my count, there are 5 prominent right-leaning, market-oriented think tanks in the Northwest: Discovery Institute and Washington Policy Center in Seattle; Evergreen Freedom Foundation in Olympia; Cascade Policy Institute in Portland; and Fraser Institute in Vancouver, BC. Each of them prominently features a devotion to free markets...Read more » -
Parking Paradigm Shift?
Editor’s note: This post was contributed by Todd Litman, author of “Parking Management Best Practices,” and founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. For more information see his free summary report (pdf), Parking Management: Strategies, Evaluation and Planning. A great example of the maxim “no free lunch” is the common struggle over parking. Motorists often assume that parking should be abundant and free at nearly every...Read more » -
Seattle Deserves a Better Comp Plan
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It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
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Washington’s 2024 Short-Session Housing Wins
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British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy