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The Performing Arts Garage, for example, went from being 25 percent full at $2.50 an hour to being 85 percent full at $1 an hour. Garage revenues rose by 10 percent. Double-parking dropped by 22 percent in pilot areas. Because drivers found parking faster, the total amount of driving in the pilot areas fell by 30 percent—2,500 miles a day of searching for spots and weaving around double-parked cars, vanquished by right-priced parking meters.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Our study found that more than 75% of the urban innovations that have successfully reduced car use were led by a local city government – and in particular, those that have proved most effective, such as congestion charges, parking and traffic controls, and limited traffic zones.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
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If everyone facing eviction in Harris County lived a 10-minute drive from their hearing before a justice of the peace, roughly 17,000 people would not have been evicted by default between 2000 and 2018, the analysis estimated. If they had lived a five-minute drive away, they estimated more than 28,000 people could have averted evictions.
Study: Eviction Outcomes in Harris County Are Linked to the Length of a Renter’s Court Commute
R.A. Schuetz
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