Parking

Trash, Rats, and Parking: Why NYC and Boston Make Garbage Choices

How NYC and Boston's obsession with curbside parking keeps streets full of trash bags and rats, and why Amsterdam-style containerization is the obvious fix.

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Bike Theft by the Numbers: Which US Cities Are Worst and Why

Bike theft in the US is a multi-billion-dollar problem concentrated in a handful of states and cities; this data-driven guide explains where theft is worst, why it clusters there, and what actually reduces the risk for everyday riders.

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Half of Boston's Blocked-Bike-Lane Reports Come From Nine Corridors

Nearly 1,000 crowdsourced reports of cars in Boston bike lanes cluster onto a handful of corridors. An optimization over the data identifies nine merged corridors that account for 508 reports—53% of the total—yielding a map of where to build protection first.

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Twelve Loading Zones Could Cover Half of Cambridge's Blocked-Bike-Lane Reports

355 crowdsourced reports of cars in Cambridge bike lanes collapse onto a handful of curbs. An exact optimization finds the 12 smallest loading-zone locations—each a 200-meter circle—that together cover 51% of every report, and proves no eleven can do it.

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NYC Congestion Pricing: What It Is, Why It Works, and What to Watch

A research-backed guide to NYC congestion pricing: how cordon tolls reduce gridlock, fund transit, affect equity, and what lessons London and Stockholm offer.

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Real barriers don't fold

A car can only block a bike lane it's able to enter—which means the same lanes get parked in and get people killed. Greater Boston's blocked-lane reports show why only real, physical separation fixes both.

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Reporting Cars in Bike Lanes: A History of Citizen Enforcement

How cyclists turned smartphones into an enforcement tool—from 311 and Bike Lane Uprising to Bike Bureau's open data and fast-growing Boston-area reporting network.

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What Blocks Bike Lanes

Explore the vehicles behind crowdsourced bike-lane obstruction reports. A photo-based breakdown with fleet counts and links to the original reports.

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