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The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s Self-Driving Vision
2 months ago

The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s Self-Driving Vision

Wired  

A sleek, gold car pulls up to a bustling corner market, and a middle-aged couple alights. A vehicle constantly on the move could obviate the need for parking: “You’re taking the ‘-ing lots’ out of parking lots,” Musk quipped, as a presentation showed the asphalt expanses around LA’s notoriously trafficky Dodger and SoFi Stadiums transformed into green spaces. “A car …

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Netizens praise free parking, affordable meals
2 months, 1 week ago

Netizens praise free parking, affordable meals

China Daily  

ezhejiang.gov.cn| Updated :2024-10-12 Local government offices across the country opened free parking lots and affordable canteens to the public during the National Day holiday, which gained widespread accolades on social media. As early as five years ago, during the Labor Day holiday, the city began offering local cuisine and over 3,000 free parking spaces at more than 65 government and …

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Expect to wait until mid-2025 for smart parking rollout in Chandigarh
3 months, 1 week ago

Expect to wait until mid-2025 for smart parking rollout in Chandigarh

Hindustan Times  

With over 25 private firms raising multiple queries in the Smart Parking project proposal, the Chandigarh municipal corporation has yet again extended the deadline for filing of bids. The Smart Parking project, featuring a plan to introduce a FASTag-enabled parking management system at all 89 parking lots of Chandigarh, was first conceived in August 2022. On August 1, the civic …

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Finding Reno’s hot spots; volunteers to measure Northern Nevada’s warmest neighborhoods
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Finding Reno’s hot spots; volunteers to measure Northern Nevada’s warmest neighborhoods

Associated Press  

Shortly after the sun rises in Reno, the city’s summer temperatures are already withering. When you start talking about extreme heat, you are talking about so many other issues — health disparities, historically underserved communities, climate change,” said Ariel Choinard, a research scientist and project coordinator at DRI’s Southern Nevada Heat Resiliency Lab. Las Vegas heat mapping The Reno heat …

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MCD proposes hike in parking rates at lots, plans to impose differential levy
5 months, 3 weeks ago

MCD proposes hike in parking rates at lots, plans to impose differential levy

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has put forth a proposal to make a slew of changes in the parking policy, from introducing separate charges for parking lots in upscale colonies, in categories A to D, to tripling parking charges in spaces located within a 500-metre radius of multilevel parking lots, to discourage street parking. The proposal, moved by the municipal …

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Move to reserve four roads around Mantralaya for staff vehicles angers residents
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Move to reserve four roads around Mantralaya for staff vehicles angers residents

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Confronted with a shortage of parking space, the state government has taken over parking lots on four roads around Mantralaya for government employees and officers. For the remaining 200 applicants, we are considering making arrangements at MMRDA’s multi-storey parking lot at CR2 near Vidhan Bhavan.” The Mantralaya employees will enjoy the facility free of charge. The plan of underground …

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Now, pay digitally at 73 Chandigarh parking lots
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Now, pay digitally at 73 Chandigarh parking lots

Hindustan Times  

Come May 1, visitors at 73 parking lots, being run by the Chandigarh municipal corporation, will be able to pay the parking fee through QR Code scanner. In all, Chandigarh has 89 parking lots on around 5.22 lakh square metre area, which can house 16,030 equivalent car spaces. This move will not only streamline the parking process for citizens, but …

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Projects with public parking lots to get additional 1.0 FSI
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Projects with public parking lots to get additional 1.0 FSI

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The state urban development department has amended the Development Control Promotional Regulation, granting an additional 1.0 floor space index to redevelopment projects that include multi-storey public parking lots. Issued on March 6 by the urban development department, the notification regarding the amendment states that regulation 33 of the DCPR provides for reconstruction or redevelopment of old buildings, while regulation …

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L.A.’s worst parking lots? An expert explains how to fix them
10 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A.’s worst parking lots? An expert explains how to fix them

LA Times  

The parking lot is a mess, cars prowling for an empty space, shoppers weaving through the tangle with overloaded carts. “To fix a parking lot, it doesn’t take a lot,” Meth says. “I personally don’t like rewarding bad behavior.” Another problem: Public streets border the triangular lot on all three sides and drivers must exit into traffic, then reenter at …

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One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces
1 year, 1 month ago

One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces

Salon  

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. “If we want half of all trips to be in something other than a car, then we can’t, as a city, in my opinion, mandate that every home or business have at least one parking space for each resident or customer,” said Zohaib Qadri, the Austin city council member who …

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Chandigarh admn, MC standoff on EV charging stations continues
1 year, 2 months ago

Chandigarh admn, MC standoff on EV charging stations continues

Hindustan Times  

Almost 33 days after the UT administration gave a three-day ultimatum to Chandigarh municipal corporation to send a compliance report on allocation of space for electric vehicle charging stations in 44 parking lots, the civic body on Monday wrote back, stating that the House has decided to constitute a committee to ascertain its feasibility. In a letter to UT’s local …

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Despite Chandigarh’s rollback order, MC sticks to double parking fee from outsiders in RFP
1 year, 2 months ago

Despite Chandigarh’s rollback order, MC sticks to double parking fee from outsiders in RFP

Hindustan Times  

Even after Punjab governor and UT administrator Banwarilal Purohit directed mayor Anup Gupta to roll back the decision to charge double parking fee from four-wheelers registered outside the tricity, the municipal corporation continued with the conditions in the request for proposal of the project. HT Image The civic body on Saturday conducted the pre-RFP meeting for selection of concessioner for …

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Wisconsin hearing considers $614M plan to fund Milwaukee Brewers stadium repairs
1 year, 2 months ago

Wisconsin hearing considers $614M plan to fund Milwaukee Brewers stadium repairs

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The chief architect of a plan to hand the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to cover stadium improvements defended his proposal Thursday in front of a legislative committee, promising the deal will keep the team in Milwaukee for another generation without new taxes. Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers’ vice president of business operations, told the committee he …

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Baby, you can drive my car: Ed Ruscha’s parking lots
1 year, 3 months ago

Baby, you can drive my car: Ed Ruscha’s parking lots

LA Times  

Today is National Restless Leg Awareness Day, designated to promote familiarity with a relatively rare medical condition identified in 1945 by Swedish neurologist Karl-Axel Ekbom. At MoMA, “Ed Ruscha: Now Then” inspires reminiscence When I graduated from college in New York, a professor who had opened my eyes to the magic and mysteries of contemporary art gave me a modest …

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Unauthorised Private Parking Lots Turn Havens for Criminals
1 year, 6 months ago

Unauthorised Private Parking Lots Turn Havens for Criminals

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Several densely populated areas and city suburbs have become haven for unauthorised private parking lots. At a rough estimate, there are around 480 private parking lots and auto garages in the city and its suburbs, Most of these are unauthorised as they are without any prior approval of the local police and none of them enter ID cards of …

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L.A.’s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries
1 year, 7 months ago

L.A.’s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

LA Times  

The scene at Casual Encountersz in March. Loren returned to L.A. in 2021 and hosted an ersatz dinner-party salon that spun off into Casual Encountersz, “readings of rage and romance” at his house, or anywhere really. The 38-year-old seized a rhythm between the “manic Gen Z voices” and his “geriatric millennial peers,” like the night he paired Jasmine Johnson’s stream-of-consciousness …

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Chandigarh mayor miffed with admn for ‘meddling in MC affairs’
1 year, 9 months ago

Chandigarh mayor miffed with admn for ‘meddling in MC affairs’

Hindustan Times  

UT adviser Dharam Pal’s recent meeting with Chandigarh municipal corporation officials over the smart parking policy has not gone down well with mayor Anup Gupta who felt that the issue should have been tabled in the House meeting first. Chandigarh mayor Anup Gupta expressed his displeasure at UT adviser Dharam Pal chairing a meeting on smart parking policy before it …

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West Virginia’s opioid crisis transcends partisan politics
2 years, 1 month ago

West Virginia’s opioid crisis transcends partisan politics

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dr. Frank Annie sees desperation in his hospital, where 30- and 40-year-olds come in with organ failure after injecting opioids with dirty needles. Against CDC guidance, state and local officials voted last year to criminalize programs that give people who inject drugs clean syringes to prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis C. A proposal for a …

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Railways earns record Rs 844 crore in 3 months from e-auction of assets
2 years, 3 months ago

Railways earns record Rs 844 crore in 3 months from e-auction of assets

Firstpost  

In a boost for small entrepreneurs and start-ups, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had launched e-auction for commercial earnings in June, a project enabling a quick finalisation of contracts and a quick re-award in case of failure of any contract New Delhi: The railways has earned Rs 844 crore in the last three months, since it brought its commercial earning and …

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The wild story of how Anaheim’s leaders bungled the Angels Stadium deal and betrayed their city
2 years, 7 months ago

The wild story of how Anaheim’s leaders bungled the Angels Stadium deal and betrayed their city

LA Times  

A worker washes a window inside Angel Stadium on Monday. The Anaheim City Council will meet to decide what comes next in the deal to sell the stadium site amid a corruption investigation into Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu. “Tonight,” Sidhu announced at a Jan. 15, 2019 council meeting, “I am asking my council colleagues to consider a one-year extension to …

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Driverless vehicles park themselves in rapidly expanding market
2 years, 8 months ago

Driverless vehicles park themselves in rapidly expanding market

China Daily  

Driverless buses operate at Guangzhou International Bio Island, Guangdong province. She added that this was why she quickly decided on an electric sport utility vehicle, or SUV, from Chinese carmaker WM Motor when her family was considering trading its 10-year-old Volkswagen Sagitar late last year. WM Motor and GAC Aion use Chinese internet giant Baidu's smart driving solutions, while other …

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Soon, zoom into Chandigarh’s parking lots with FASTag
2 years, 8 months ago

Soon, zoom into Chandigarh’s parking lots with FASTag

Hindustan Times  

In a bid to make paid parking hassle-free, the UT administration has decided to introduce FASTag at all parkings lots managed by the municipal corporation and is also actively considering to allow free parking for two-wheelers. The boom barrier at the entry/exit points will be linked with FASTag for automatic operation.” As FASTag is already mandatory for using the national …

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In Chandigarh, parking lots still riddled with issues
3 years, 3 months ago

In Chandigarh, parking lots still riddled with issues

Hindustan Times  

Haphazard parking, missing parking attendants and lack of aesthetic kiosks continue to plague the parking lots in Chandigarh. The municipal corporation commissioner, a week ago, had directed MC officials to inspect all parking lots in the city and report whether the provisions and facilities mandated under the parking contracts are being complied with. Mitra, a week ago, had directed MC …

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Now playing at the mall parking lot: movies, drag shows
4 years, 4 months ago

Now playing at the mall parking lot: movies, drag shows

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Angel Dougherty went to the mall last month — not to shop, but to watch a drive-in drag show in the parking lot. “This year has been so anxiety filled and chaotic, I figured this experience would be something to lighten the mood,” says Dougherty, who paid to see the stars of TV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” dance …

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