#23: Parking, Public Space, Better Surveys + Jobs

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A few interesting things. 🧠

🅿️ This Week in Parking: Dallas becomes the latest city to embrace parking minimum reform.

⛲ Public Space: New York is full of underappreciated privately owned public spaces. Jordan Engel is working to add them all to Google Maps. 

🚐 Microtransit: The UMass Donahue Institute took a deep dive into the economic impact of the Quaboag Connector (warning: PDF link) - a rural microtransit service in Massachusetts.

🪙 Fares: The Urban Institute documents low participation in discounted transit fare programs and highlights the success of Philadelphia’s Fare Zero automatic enrollment process.

📊 Surveys: Jen Hurley discusses the rise of convenience-sample surveys in planning projects and proposes some strategies to make them more effective.

💪 Jobs: King County is hiring an Innovative Mobility Program Lead. MnDOT is looking for a Shared Mobility Coordinator. Texas State is hiring a Director for their Institute of Government Innovation.

A quick Journey update. 🏗️

📃 Certifications Update: Journey is now certified as a DBE in Oklahoma! See our full list of over 30 certifications here.

📚 Book Clubs:

• ACT Book Club: Journey founder Lauren Mattern hosts the Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club. Join us for an upcoming discussion of Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall on July 9 at 3 PM (EDT). Sign up here and earn 1 TDM-CP credit for attending.

• Chicago City Builders Book Club: Lauren co-hosts the monthly Chicago City Builders Book Club with Marla Westervelt Berg of Cityfi and Mike Ernst of Arup. This month, they are reading Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race by Gary Rivlin. The club will meet on Thursday, May 29 from 6 PM to 8 PM (CDT) at Arup’s office in The Loop. Sign up here.

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