Transportation + Transit
From Highways to Homes: The Opportunity to Reconnect Communities Divided by Freeways
Shawn Dunwoody (Hinge Neighbors), Regan Patterson (Congressional Black Caucus Foundation), Amy Stelly (Claiborne Avenue Alliance), Marc Wouters (Marc Wouters | Studios), and moderator Ben Crowther (Congress for the New Urbanism) discuss their efforts to remove freeways and replace them with thriving connected neighborhoods.
Parking Reform: From Theory to Practice 
The principles of parking reform are straightforward, but the politics can be another story. Four changemakers from both in and outside of government share their stories of how they won victories for using city space more efficiently.
Fighting the Freeway Industrial Complex and What It Means for Housing, Infrastructure, and Transit
Alex Contreras (Happy City Coalition), Adah Crandall (Sunrise Movement PDX and Portland Youth Climate Strike), and Martha Roskowski (Further Strategies) discuss their organizations’ advocacy work and the intersection of housing, the climate crisis, and transit in the push against freeway expansions.
Housing Abundance Requires Abundant Transportation
Alex Baca (Greater Greater Washington), Alex Contreras (Happy City Coalition), Amy Stelly (Claiborne Avenue Alliance), Jarrett Walker (Jarrett Walker + Associates), and moderator Michael Andersen (Sightline Institute) share their experiences in transportation advocacy and discuss how robust, effective, and efficient transit provides people with access to opportunity.
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin
"No question that we're overbuilding parking": Austin's Leah Bojo on parking.
Land Use Policy Is Climate Policy Is Housing Policy
Joe Cortright (City Observatory), Ben Holland (RMI), Jarred Johnson (TransitMatters), and moderator Ben Crowther (CNU) discuss how policies around land use, climate, and housing are all interconnected, and how we must strategically address transportation, transit, and housing issues to address the climate crisis.
How Much Are Gas Taxes? Most People Don’t Know
So let’s give clear, meaningful transportation subsidies instead.
Most Washington Voters Agree: Repeal Parking Mandates Near Transit
A recent poll revealed broad support for a little-known zoning reform.
No Minimum Parking Requirements? No Problem for Fayetteville, Arkansas
Six years into its deregulation experiment, a growing city thrives without parking mandates.
To Stop Building Heat Islands, Stop Overbuilding Parking Lots
Parking lots amplify high temperatures. Why are we still requiring them to be larger than they need to be?
