Joe Cortright
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What the Price of Parking Shows Us About Cities
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To see where your city falls, check out the interactive chart at this link.
Cross-posted from City Observatory.
Earlier, we rolled out our parking price index, showing the variation in parking prices among large US cities. Gleaning data from ParkMe, a web-based directory of parking lots and rates, we showed how much it cost to park on [...]
Sprawl and the Cost of Living
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Cross-posted from City Observatory.
Over the past three weeks, we’ve introduced the “sprawl tax”—showing how much more Americans pay in time and money because of sprawling urban development patterns. We’ve also shown how much higher the sprawl tax is in the US than in other economically prosperous countries, and how sprawl and long commutes impose a [...]
The End of Peak Driving?
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Cross-posted from City Observatory.
A little over a year ago, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $3.70. Since then, that price has plummeted, and remains more than a dollar cheaper than it was through most of 2014.
Over the same period, there’s been a small but noticeable uptick in driving in the US. After nearly a decade [...]