Cars and buses alike are stuck in traffic that drives climate change. Housing and economic policies have codified inequity and exclusion. These problems are connected.
High housing costs displace low-income transit riders from urban centers to suburbs, causing longer, more expensive, polluting commutes that make traffic worse.
Outdated requirements to overbuild parking increases construction costs, decreases the space to provide more homes, and results in more car use and traffic.
Parking and traffic concerns fuel neighborhood opposition to new housing developments, perpetuating racial and economic exclusion.
Every time we approve a car-centric, multi-family development with vast expanses of parking, we lose an opportunity to do the right thing.
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