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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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I’m planning to be there.

🚨 CT Housing and Transportation Folks! 🚨 Connecticut’s housing bill, HB 5002, is going to the Senate in the next few days. An email in support would go a long way to support parking reform and more housing options in the state. I’d keep it short and sweet. Some ideas for what to include below 🧵 /

This really *is* Liberation Day: The U.S. Court of International Trade this afternoon struck down Trump’s mass tariffs as unlawful. It’s a fantastic win for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods. /1

Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

This is bad but have you ever had to park your car a block further than you wanted to?

H.B. 5002 just passed the House after over 11 hours of debate! From Work Live Ride, the biggest parking reform east of the Rockies, to fair share, commercial conversions, public housing, and homelessness reforms, this is a significant step forward. On to the Senate! 🏘️🚉

Just saw two cars run a red light in front of a Portland motorcycle police officer. I pointed it out to him and asked him why he didn’t do anything. He asked me why I wasn’t wearing a helmet. Fuck the police.

CT house just passed a full repeal of residential parking mandates! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Man, NIMBYs are just full of shit.

One thing I'm pretty confident of is that human drivers will only get worse at driving from here on out and robots will only get better.

I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison

If you’ve ever wondered how many chess players you could fit into a car parking space, Paris has the answer: you can fit 16 chess players into a single parking spot !

🏆 Do you know of a parking reform trailblazer who truly inspired you? Nominate an individual, org, or policymaker for the Donald Shoup Award before June 13! More info ⬇️ parkingreform.org/donald-shoup...

#RoadScholars Episode 2 out now! In this encore episode from #UCLAHousingVoice, Adam Millard-Ball discusses what SF's housing lottery can tell us about factors that influence travel behavior. Spoiler alert: Parking plays a major role. Listen here

It's been super fun to take over the audio reins on the UCLA Housing Voice for our transportation mini-series. Here's part two that is dedicated to the one-and-only Don Shoup featuring @uclaits.bsky.social Director, Adam Millard-Ball and his parking research on affordable housing in SF.

Remember that Novick also voted to impost parking mandates on housing near transit.

🚨🚨Connecticut Friends🚨🚨 Are you sick and tired of the housing crisis? That there is less than 400 homes for sale in a region with 600k+ people? Now is your chance, email your rep (link below) and tell them you support 5002 + The Parking Reform provision. It is the #1 impactful reform there is

Bonkers lineup.

Best time to close the barn doors is after all the animals got out!

Join me on Tuesday, May 27, at noon PDT to learn: 1️⃣What happens when cities remove minimum parking mandates; and, 2️⃣How cities have (and occasionally haven't) avoided a political backlash. lu.ma/v6b7gqmr?tk=...

Whole lotta shit going on.

I like to think this is an actual photo from the podcast where Dershowitz just kinda hovered like a super creep in the background.

Colorado governor’s new executive order will condition municipalities’ receipt of $100 million in state grants on those cities’ compliance with state housing laws, including: —Allowing ADUs —Eliminating parking requirements near transit —Denser zoning districts near transit

Fantastic case for the traditional Connecticut town center 👏👏👏 “If Branford’s Main Street did not already exist, it would be illegal to build it today under current zoning regulations, partially due to strict minimum parking requirements” ctexaminer.com/2025/05/17/b...

The haters and losers hope everyone has a great weekend.

It’s kinda interesting that we’ve become so much more trauma informed as a society in many ways, but 99% of Americans dissociate and completely ignore any trauma witnessed or experienced that’s caused by someone driving a car.

The number on the speedometer goes so high! Can’t resist make vroom.

Probably just totally normal stuff.

Parking reform passes, 14-1! It is not full repeal of parking mandates across the board, but it does go a long way towards it.

Congratulations to all the folks who worked so hard over so many years to win parking reform in Dallas! dallascityhall.com/departments/...

the most boring use of an ai chatbot is to ask it about itself.

what prompted the parking reform conversation in Dallas, via councilman Chad West