Will Congestion Pricing Fly in New York?
…Paterson’s former district hasn’t been sympathetic to the mayor’s congestion pricing plan — many fear Harlem will become a commuter parking lot — but with his first rough week, Paterson…
Obi Felten used to launch projects for X, Google’s innovation lab, but she’s now tackling mental health. She explains why Steve’s dream job was soul-destroying for her, and how peer…
In this special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss the consequences of seeing every glass as at least half-full….
What is the relationship between “catastrophizing” and anxiety? How did Angela react when her mother came close to drowning? And how can you gain perspective when the worst-case scenario is…
In their chase for a global audience, American movie studios spend billions to make their films look amazing. But almost none of those dollars stay in America. What would it…
…Paterson’s former district hasn’t been sympathetic to the mayor’s congestion pricing plan — many fear Harlem will become a commuter parking lot — but with his first rough week, Paterson…
…are wealthier workers who commute to jobs in city centers where parking is expensive. The other group consists of the very poor. Unlike the “choice riders,” who could drive if…
…above parking lots in inland Southern California. Homeowners would receive payments for the energy produced from their share of the projects, much as they do from the projects on their…
…increasing gas taxes, congestion tolling, or charging market rates for street parking. Note that pricing strategies of this sort would also help the environment by raising auto efficiency through increased…
…season, we’ve all been struck by how everywhere seems to be more crowded than usual. Parks, beaches, even stores are jammed. We could barely find a parking space at our…
…cars might also foster density, if people are willing to switch to car sharing and we need fewer parking places. Nobody has mentioned this yet, but the number of organ…
…Wireless cellular tower with lease, and parking area previously used by an overnight shipping company for night time trailer switches. The online auction starts at 2 p.m., E.S.T. The opening…
…an Israeli park encourages people to walk the long distance from the parking lot to a cave. As Flickr user goldberg explains, a series of signs along the route tell…
…to have the car retrieved from valet parking. All of the sudden, we found ourselves smack in the middle of the annual Chicago naked bike ride. I don’t think I…
…minds think alike. A few years ago, Barry Nalebuff and I created the “LiabiliT,” which attempts to do the same thing with regard to those annoying signs in parking lots…
From reader Paul O’Keef: Architectural Record reports that India’s richest man is building a sixty-story house for his family, including six floors for parking, a health club and a rooftop…
…some wag had taken the phrase “A man can plan,” and anagrammed it into “Panama Canal.” I look again at Dad, striding through the frigid parking lot, balaclava on his…
…for it. His wife hasn’t abandoned her car; she’s living in it, in a hotel parking lot. It’s the dark side of Dubai, though at least one Dubai-based blogger thinks…
A Chicago company called Remote Sensing Metrics LLC has been using satellite images to track the number of cars in Wal-Mart parking lots, as a means of helping forecast earnings…
…mile. It struck me though how much this flat reimbursement subsidizes our driving choices somewhat similarly to the free parking hypotheses. It’s interesting that while at the same time the…
…an even higher percentage than construction workers. So why is that? According to the article, the government workers have a very simple and powerful incentive: “because they have free parking.”…
…isn’t alone. This Washington Post article suggests that the practice is common place.? In some cities, parking with a placard not only gives you access to handicap spots, but also…
…of gas-station workers? Hardly. The occasion was nothing more dramatic than a Red Sox home game. The station’s real estate is apparently more valuable for parking than for selling gas:…
…the most efficient strategy to snag the best parking spot at the mall? How can you make it statistically more likely that you’ll get some action tonight? SCI FI is…
…looking for patterns of communication or keywords that might indicate a conversation between terrorists. Many airports collect the license plates of every car in their parking lots, and can use…
Israel’s folding car can park in a motorcycle parking spot. (HT: Yehuda Simon) The economics of online dating: an economist explains the marketplace of online love. The perverse incentives of…
…lot (though probably not all) of the cross-national differences in vehicle miles traveled may indeed be attributable to government policies, including restrictions on parking, high gas taxes, stiffer registration fees,…
…deter local youths from late-night loitering and noise-making. Essentially, a combination of Barry Manilow’s greatest hits and classical music were blasted from a local parking lot that was typically overrun…
…parking lot.) It was like reading about the origins of all the superheroes. I was a fanboy and my heroes were the other executives. I wanted to be one of…
…who had been on the receiving end of some road rage — in a New York City parking garage, of all places. The driver behind her simply couldn’t wait for…
…that impels complementary reductions in-car use–say, the physical elimination of traffic lanes, or the conversion of existing roadways into bike or bus lanes, ideally with higher fuel taxes, parking fees,…