Author: Mehul Gupta
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Chicago Parking Reform: An Interview with Lindsay Bayley
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Lindsay Bayley is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member of the Parking Reform Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the impact of parking policy on climate change, equity, housing, and traffic. Lindsay is also the Program Lead for Safe & Complete Streets at the Chicago Metropolitan…
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The True Cost of Free Parking: A Conversation with Henry Grabar
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Henry Grabar is the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. His book examines how parking shapes Americans’ lives through day-to-day interactions such as violence over a parking spot to its role in affordable housing development. Paved Paradise questions whether parking is the most efficient use of space…
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Electric Vehicles Are Not the Solution. Sustainable Transit Is.
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In the past two years, the Biden Administration has enacted major policies to increase the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $7.5 billion to develop and improve domestic EV charging infrastructure and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) updates existing EV subsidies and…
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Big Bet on Electric Vehicles
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Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States grew by 85% between 2020 and 2021 – the largest increase to date. To continue this growth and promote additional investment in EV production, Democratic lawmakers passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) in August, the largest piece of climate change…