Reinventing Parking - It's about choice! Edmonton's Open Option parking reform

It's about choice! Edmonton's Open Option parking reform

09/22/22 • 33 min

In mid-2020, Edmonton's city council amazed many of us in the parking reform scene by voting to comprehensively remove minimum parking requirements.

Edmonton had a unique name for its reform: Open Option Parking.

This month's Reinventing Parking is an interview with Ashley Salvador, who was a key participant in the campaign for Edmonton's 2020 parking reform.

Together we explored the Edmonton Open Option Parking story.

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This month's Reinventing Parking features an encouraging case of a non-profit organization taking the initiative on parking policy in its home city of Delhi.

I spoke with Sonal Shah of the Centre for Sustainable and Equitable Cities (C-SEC), which carried out a small but sophisticated investigation of parking in the vicinity of the Green Park Metro Rail Station in southern Delhi.

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