Posted by Joanna on Aug 24th, 2009
The Valley News reported the following in Sunday’s paper “Dartmouth Puts Pressure on Parkers” August 23, 1984:
“Hanover - A steep increase in parking fees at Dartmouth College has upset some employees. the parking fee increase announced in a memo earlier this month, will more than double the cost of parking for service empoyees from $30 to $72 a year. Faculty and higher level administrators will pay $120, up from $84.”
Dartmouth has not raised parking fees since 1984. If rates had been annually adjusted for inflation, faculty and administrators would be paying about $250 a year in 2009 instead of $120. Town of Hanover employees pay $540 a year for parking adjacent to their downtown office or park for free at Thompson Arena. Those downtown employees looking for covered parking at the town’s parking garage may pay $1,440 annually. Parking isn’t so cheap anymore.
Posted by Joanna on Jul 18th, 2009
Portland, Oregon did just that…the City removed 2 parallel on-street parking spaces and replaced them with racks that serve about 20 bikes.
Posted by Joanna on May 10th, 2009
Transportation Vision for My City
By Frank Gould
There is a fair city named Lebanon
whose by-ways have long known congestion
let’s make positive change
across the whole range
from bike-ped to car to ten ton. Continue Reading »
Posted by Joanna on Mar 20th, 2009
Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping with a design charette at the local elementary school. ORW, landscape architects, orchestrated a fascinating afternoon for 28 4th & 5th graders. The students’ charge was to collect information about their school yard. They were given a map and series of questions - how do walkers and bikers enter the school grounds? how much grass & mud? where do the buses go? etc. After gathering the data, the students returned to the art room to record their findings on the big site plan and share them with the group. Next Wednesday afternoon, the students return to the “studio” to re-design the space. Can’t wait!
Posted by Joanna on Mar 10th, 2009
The Hanover Planning Board graciously listened to me present a slide show describing “Commuting & Parking at Dartmouth.” Everyone seemed to survive the evening. Unfortunately the document is too large for me to post on this blog so it has been posted at the OPDC Planning site. If you were at the meeting and have comments or you missed the meeting and would really like to see the 22-page, slide show, please let me know.
