Tony Jordan
@tonyjordan.bsky.social
Parking and local politics, mostly (and some dad-type jokes). President of the Parking Reform Network. Grist 50 Fixer.
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Tony Jordan
@tonyjordan.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.)
New York and cities across the country reconsider decades-old parking rules.
www.nytimes.com
“People just assume these numbers are right because they’re in the zoning code,” said Tony Jordan, who runs the Parking Reform Network, which advocates ending minimums. “No, they’re just made up.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Sure seems just a little bit suspect that the gutted Consumer Product Safety Commission's highest profile action this administration is going after e-bikes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sure seems just a little bit suspect that the gutted Consumer Product Safety Commission's highest profile action this administration is going after e-bikes.
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"'Stop playing political games with children's lives,' said Elizabeth Adams, deputy director of Transportation Alternatives. 'We’re disappointed and angry that the City Council is working to water-down a critical, lifesaving bill.'"
NEW: NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and City Hall are colluding to kill a long-awaited bill to ban parking near all intersections for better visibility — a dramatic, lame-duck gambit that street safety advocates blasted as an egregious form of political gamesmanship. buff.ly/1wcrEWr
Speaker Adams and DOT Plan To Eviscerate Daylighting Bill - Streetsblog New York City
The two outer-borough Democrats are plotting to preserve a status quo that allows drivers to park at street corners, directly next to painted crosswalks, preventing pedestrians from seeing where cars…
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"'Stop playing political games with children's lives,' said Elizabeth Adams, deputy director of Transportation Alternatives. 'We’re disappointed and angry that the City Council is working to water-down a critical, lifesaving bill.'"
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Weird to not mention that not only was there a coal power plant, but that its hot water discharge was famously used for decades as a wintertime recreation amenity
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
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Proposed Montgomery County data center would use Potomac River water for cooling
The data center would be located at the old Dickerson coal-fired power plant site. Residents, state officials, and local environmental groups are weighing what it will mean for the area.
wamu.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Weird to not mention that not only was there a coal power plant, but that its hot water discharge was famously used for decades as a wintertime recreation amenity
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
COP30 features a “climate mayor” conference that PDX’s Keith Wilson was featured at.
About a month ago Keith caved to whiners and rolled back a parking meter enforcement extension.
About a month ago Keith caved to whiners and rolled back a parking meter enforcement extension.
A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
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COP30 Is on Fire
Flames have erupted in the “Blue Zone” at the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
COP30 features a “climate mayor” conference that PDX’s Keith Wilson was featured at.
About a month ago Keith caved to whiners and rolled back a parking meter enforcement extension.
About a month ago Keith caved to whiners and rolled back a parking meter enforcement extension.
Definitely an unrealized market for pretty much anything for dads to do directly outside the Brandy Melville flagship store.
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Definitely an unrealized market for pretty much anything for dads to do directly outside the Brandy Melville flagship store.
I still would like to see some data on how many “driverful” trips are people basically deadheading because they’re coming back from dropping kids off or making superfluous trips that could be chained.
I remain unconvinced that shared mobility can possibly be worse than the status quo.
I remain unconvinced that shared mobility can possibly be worse than the status quo.
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I still would like to see some data on how many “driverful” trips are people basically deadheading because they’re coming back from dropping kids off or making superfluous trips that could be chained.
I remain unconvinced that shared mobility can possibly be worse than the status quo.
I remain unconvinced that shared mobility can possibly be worse than the status quo.
And it was fun as hell, too!
From the archive: This 2016 protest from BikeLoud PDX, where they threw massive hay bales onto SE Division after a spate of deaths to push for slower speeds, remains one of the most powerful bits of activism I've ever seen.
bikeportland.org/2016/12/11/d...
bikeportland.org/2016/12/11/d...
Deadly Division Street temporarily tamed with hay bales and homemade signs
Volunteer activists take Division's dangers into their own hands.
bikeportland.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
And it was fun as hell, too!
There’s an easy way to find out.
Legalize walkable neighborhoods everywhere. Equalize subsidy for walkable neighborhoods and transit with what we have subsidized for cars.
“Everyone” as always is the fallacy here. There is incredible latent demand to drive less.
Legalize walkable neighborhoods everywhere. Equalize subsidy for walkable neighborhoods and transit with what we have subsidized for cars.
“Everyone” as always is the fallacy here. There is incredible latent demand to drive less.
There is a fantasy - and frankly, you can see this fantasy all over my replies for the last day- that everyone wants to live in New York, everyone wants to walk everywhere, and that if we'd only build these environments, the problem of sprawl would vanish. It doesn't really seem to be true, though.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There’s an easy way to find out.
Legalize walkable neighborhoods everywhere. Equalize subsidy for walkable neighborhoods and transit with what we have subsidized for cars.
“Everyone” as always is the fallacy here. There is incredible latent demand to drive less.
Legalize walkable neighborhoods everywhere. Equalize subsidy for walkable neighborhoods and transit with what we have subsidized for cars.
“Everyone” as always is the fallacy here. There is incredible latent demand to drive less.
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parking mandates are ridiculous, incl. in Chicago
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
parking mandates are ridiculous, incl. in Chicago
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
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why do Wheaton and Bolingbrook calculate elementary school parking requirements based on the number of *children who cannot drive* and whose parents will not be parking at the school after dropping them off
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
why do Wheaton and Bolingbrook calculate elementary school parking requirements based on the number of *children who cannot drive* and whose parents will not be parking at the school after dropping them off
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parking mandates are ridiculous, continued:
it looks like no city in Illinois can agree on the best way to calculate how much parking an elementary school should provide
Jane made this list showing 20 municipalities with 20 different parking mandate methods
it looks like no city in Illinois can agree on the best way to calculate how much parking an elementary school should provide
Jane made this list showing 20 municipalities with 20 different parking mandate methods
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
parking mandates are ridiculous, continued:
it looks like no city in Illinois can agree on the best way to calculate how much parking an elementary school should provide
Jane made this list showing 20 municipalities with 20 different parking mandate methods
it looks like no city in Illinois can agree on the best way to calculate how much parking an elementary school should provide
Jane made this list showing 20 municipalities with 20 different parking mandate methods
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In France they’ve got automated meter maids now – Waymo-looking cars that fine you if you don’t feed the meter. This article says that while a human can check a few dozen cars per hour, these can check up to 1,500 in an hour leocare.eu/fr/blog/sulf...
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In France they’ve got automated meter maids now – Waymo-looking cars that fine you if you don’t feed the meter. This article says that while a human can check a few dozen cars per hour, these can check up to 1,500 in an hour leocare.eu/fr/blog/sulf...
I liked this guy in What We Do In The Shadows but this character he plays now sucks.
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I liked this guy in What We Do In The Shadows but this character he plays now sucks.
The best time to start charging for parking was about 1945 but the second best is today.
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The best time to start charging for parking was about 1945 but the second best is today.
For the second time this year, Connecticut has sent the nations most expansive statewide parking minimum reform to Governor Lamont.
This time he's planning to sign it.
westportjournal.com/government/h...
This time he's planning to sign it.
westportjournal.com/government/h...
Housing bill passes, House, Senate; Lamont expected to sign
The new compromise housing bill, HB 8002, gets final approval from the CT Senate. It heads to Governor Lamont's desk.
westportjournal.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For the second time this year, Connecticut has sent the nations most expansive statewide parking minimum reform to Governor Lamont.
This time he's planning to sign it.
westportjournal.com/government/h...
This time he's planning to sign it.
westportjournal.com/government/h...
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📚💬 Join us for an evening exploring The Shoup Doctrine by Dr. Daniel Hess.
Donald Shoup's revolutionary parking reforms, lessons learned, victories hard-won, & goals yet to be reached for cities that put people first. ✨
Thurs, Nov 20 - 6 PM
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Donald Shoup's revolutionary parking reforms, lessons learned, victories hard-won, & goals yet to be reached for cities that put people first. ✨
Thurs, Nov 20 - 6 PM
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
📚💬 Join us for an evening exploring The Shoup Doctrine by Dr. Daniel Hess.
Donald Shoup's revolutionary parking reforms, lessons learned, victories hard-won, & goals yet to be reached for cities that put people first. ✨
Thurs, Nov 20 - 6 PM
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Donald Shoup's revolutionary parking reforms, lessons learned, victories hard-won, & goals yet to be reached for cities that put people first. ✨
Thurs, Nov 20 - 6 PM
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Don’t wait! Our #SimplyEverything sale has every Island Press book at 50% off. One last opportunity to stock up directly from Island Press — sale ends 11/16! Use code HALF at checkout: islandpress.org/half
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Don’t wait! Our #SimplyEverything sale has every Island Press book at 50% off. One last opportunity to stock up directly from Island Press — sale ends 11/16! Use code HALF at checkout: islandpress.org/half
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TODAY is publication day for my first book! If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy is a practical guide for people who want to make #transit, #bike, and street safety changes in their community
Check it out at islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Check it out at islandpress.org/books/if-you...
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
TODAY is publication day for my first book! If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy is a practical guide for people who want to make #transit, #bike, and street safety changes in their community
Check it out at islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Check it out at islandpress.org/books/if-you...
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Dropped by this morning, and this same restaurant expanded their outdoor seat even more into the old parking lot...
@parkingreform.org
@parkingreform.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dropped by this morning, and this same restaurant expanded their outdoor seat even more into the old parking lot...
@parkingreform.org
@parkingreform.org
Calling a bank about a payment mistake.
"There's a 3 minute wait, would you like is to call you back? Press 1 to get a call back, press 2 to stay on the line, press three to learn more about call back."
Presses 2
"Press 1 to learn more about call back. Press 3 to stay on hold."
"There's a 3 minute wait, would you like is to call you back? Press 1 to get a call back, press 2 to stay on the line, press three to learn more about call back."
Presses 2
"Press 1 to learn more about call back. Press 3 to stay on hold."
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Calling a bank about a payment mistake.
"There's a 3 minute wait, would you like is to call you back? Press 1 to get a call back, press 2 to stay on the line, press three to learn more about call back."
Presses 2
"Press 1 to learn more about call back. Press 3 to stay on hold."
"There's a 3 minute wait, would you like is to call you back? Press 1 to get a call back, press 2 to stay on the line, press three to learn more about call back."
Presses 2
"Press 1 to learn more about call back. Press 3 to stay on hold."
I'm thinking about the protest over the poor kitty that ran under a Waymo. The argument against the autonomous vehicle is that a human driver has object permanence and would have seen the cat run under the car and gotten out to check.
Do you believe that? I don't.
Do you believe that? I don't.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I'm thinking about the protest over the poor kitty that ran under a Waymo. The argument against the autonomous vehicle is that a human driver has object permanence and would have seen the cat run under the car and gotten out to check.
Do you believe that? I don't.
Do you believe that? I don't.
What is @pbotinfo.bsky.social doing to encourage people to visit downtown in the winter by a mode other than personal death box?
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What is @pbotinfo.bsky.social doing to encourage people to visit downtown in the winter by a mode other than personal death box?
Maybe we should just try claiming we won no matter what? Works for them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Maybe we should just try claiming we won no matter what? Works for them.
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@jamellebouie.net how bad would it be (or would it really be bad) if the GOP nuked the filibuster to re-open the government and completely own their bullshit?
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@jamellebouie.net how bad would it be (or would it really be bad) if the GOP nuked the filibuster to re-open the government and completely own their bullshit?