Matthew Willenbrink

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Parking Live · The Chicago Experiment That's Changing Street Safety · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

There's a number of use cases and a number of studies that have been done in a number of different cities that show

when you're doing enforcement correctly.

You know, it doesn't even have to be in a bike lane or bus lane.

It could just be with traditional parking.

when you're doing things correctly and you kinda reach those target numbers of about eighty percent occupancy on any given block.

traffic flows easier.

You see a reduction in traffic congestion.

You can see vehicle emissions and air pollution numbers go down.

You know, it's not necessarily huge, but you can see an improvement in all of these metrics.

So it's not only the hard numbers like, you know, revenue, uh, it's all of these softer, more benefit driven type of improvements that we can make to communities that you see.

So it's not just the numbers, it's this whole picture of overall improvement that you can make into a community uh when you're doing these things right.

Yeah, this is a great question.

So the neighborhood access and equity program was rescinded, so that's $750 million gone.

transportation alternative program is up for renegotiation with no guarantees.

So all of this means that cities, they were looking for this money to help improve infrastructure, make more protected bike lanes, add more bike lanes.

All of that money is either gone or up in the air now on whether they're gonna receive it.

So what that really means for cities is they're gonna have to start doing more with less, uh, you know, figuring out ways to work more efficiently.

use their existing infrastructure in new ways um with incremental changes that may not be as cost prohibitive.

So things like what we're doing in Chicago.

You know, an interesting thing with what they're doing and how they're doing it is the hardware is no different essentially from what they use for traditional parking enforcement from a LPR standpoint.

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