Free disabled parking spots aren’t the problem – it’s when metered parking spots can be occupied for free by anyone with a placard that people tend to take advantage. No one is in favor of making parking for people with disabilities more difficult. But what is the overall value of refusing to compromise that principle, …

After the NYPD’s crackdown on bicycle traffic violations engineered by Operation Safe Cycle, cyclists complained that the wrong offenses were being targeted, and there was no effort to educate the city’s thousands of bikers (via Transportation Nation). There’s nothing like taking a leisurely bike ride and then being slapped with a $270 ticket! Although, these …

George Steinbrenner’s legacy, the new Yankee Stadium, includes better and more bathrooms, slightly less seating – and 9,000 too many parking spaces. If the Yankees have an Achilles’ heel, it’s not their dodgy relief pitching or Jeter’s questionable ankle – it’s their parking garages. As Transportation Nation reports, Yankee Stadium’s garages, which are operated by …

Accidents between vehicles and pedestrians have become an all-too-common scene on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey (via Asbury Park Press). Despite precautions like crosswalks, cities across the country are seeing increases in collisions between pedestrians, vehicles and bicycles. Officials are desperately trying to find new methods to prevent injuries and save lives on …