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Park(ing) Day 2009 - 50 cities and counting!
August 12, 2009
Park(ing) Day. A fabulous and inspiring movement launched in NYC a few years back to reclaim open space and make it liveable again. It's a brilliant idea frankly - taking public space like that and making it into whatever you want it to be for a day. Definitely worth taking a look at the official website and seeing how folks in NYC have brought to life these forlorn slabs of concrete! Click ...
Parking in OWN Driveway = Ticket in Toledo, OH
June 16, 2009
Now I see a lot of wonky stuff out there since I began my foray into the world of parking but never one quite like this. Apparently the city of Toledo, OH has decided to TICKET folks in their own driveways! The law apparently says it's illegal to park on unpaved ground - hence anyone with a gravel driveway is being issued parking tickets!! The mayor in fact is actually supporting ...
Parking Pay Stations Designed To Ease Congestion in San Francisco
June 3, 2009
It was only a matter of time before cities began to really leverage supply and demand when it comes to parking rates. SO in San Francisco a new set of 'pay stations' literally does that. City sets curbside meters based on anticipated demand. When demand in an area goes up, so does the rate to park there. What they're trying to do is basically try to regulate street parking so that ...
PrimeTime Parking Rates Jacked in Brooklyn
May 5, 2009
Parking in Park Slope, Brooklyn just got a little more expensive. In an effort to ease congestion in the Park Slope business area, a beta test is being run that jacks meter prices from 10am to 4pm in that zone. The intent is to keep folks from leaving their cars parked for too long but instead get higher turnover from each spot(and thus more money for the city!). It came about after ...
NY1 News Story About Parking Options
March 30, 2009
It was a big week for us at parkingspots.com last week...having survived a crazy earthquake in the Palm Desert early in the week we figured luck was on our side. And frankly it was! Friday found me in NYC meeting with some major journalists who are interested in our story (yay!). Not only that but something must have been in the air as that morning, unbeknownst to us NY1 ran a ...
The Issue of Parking on Campus
February 17, 2009
Why is it that so many of the articles I stumble on in my field address the issue of parking on campus? I mean, isn't academia supposed to be the think tank of society? Aren't our major breakthroughs supposed to come from these campuses of higher learning? Then why is it that the basic issue of parking can't even be solved at these campuses? mind blowing.. ...
Cities Increase Parking Enforcement - Their REAL Motives
February 2, 2009
I'm really disappointed to know what's happening in Brooklyn when it comes to Parking Enforcement. SEems that the city is using it as a way to grab quick bucks from drivers in the region by indiscriminately ticketing. Add to that the fact that according to the Brooklyn Eagle, the only item in the budget that WASN'T cut was on parking enforcement - enough $$ to add another 253 hires!! I mean honestly...it ...
Free Parking? Not at the Hampton Inn
January 13, 2009
Now this story is simply mind blowing. I mean honestly, something bigger must have been happening in the life of this Manager at the Hampton Inn in DC. Basically, a guest drove into a parking garage at the Hampton Inn, was told by the manager no problem and given a parking ticket for the vehicle. Two days later he was shocked to find two $38 charges on his room bill for 'valet' ...
Bike Parking akin to Car Parking?
November 16, 2008
NYC is looking to change its current laws to encourage more people to make the shift from cars to bikes. They are in the process of more than doubling the cities bike lanes to 420 miles by 2009. In addition, a new law would mandate that new apartment buildings set aside space for 1 dedicated bike parking spot for every 2 apartment units. FOr the full story read here... ...
Parking Not Needed
November 9, 2008
It always amazes me when I get to travel somewhere new and see how an unfamiliar city/town operates. Sitting here in Gasparilla, FL cars have been forsaken by many in favor of golf carts. Yep - golf carts! What a fabulous little invention they are and environmental to boot! Now if speed's your thing, this mode of transport definitely doesn't offer much but frankly, in this part of the world, there ...
Washington and Parking Minimums
October 2, 2008
So Washington is dealing with the issue of parking minimums and it's creating quite a stir. Some advocacy groups are fighting vehemently to convince the city they should drop the minimum parking spots associated with new developments. The theory? Too much space is being devoted to parking and it's unnecessary. We couldn't agree more! Why not better use the space we have?? Read more here.... ...
International Park(ing) Day!!
September 23, 2008
As it turns out, yesterday was International Park(ing) Day - yes, it's really a celebrated day! Launched three years ago, the premise is to take existing parking spots and temporarily convert them into works of art. Well, apparently the parking folks in Toronto didn't like the idea very much...have a read of this bureaucratic debacle.. ...
Hate It or Love It...This Guy is Innovative
September 20, 2008
Ever had your parked car towed? Well these poor folks definitely did but it didn't end there! A Long Island man was busted this past week for using a tow truck to steal dozens of cars and then flipping the parts for upwards of $20,000. I don't know...something about that...this guy's got one hell of an entrepreneurial streak!! ...
McCain's Million Dollar Parking Lot
August 28, 2008
It turns out that Presidential hopeful John McCain is in the game of parking. More impressively (in some bizarre way) is the fact that someone took the time to put together a video about McCain's parking lot. It's located directly beside the Arizona Diamondbacks stadium and it seems people think it's just terrible that he's making upwards of a million a year off it. I mean honestly? All it proves to ...
Hybrids the New Kings of Parking
August 22, 2008
In the game of parking, it's rare that anyone has a leg up on someone else in securing a spot. For the most part it's an aggressive, frustrating and frankly annoying headache that people prefer to just avoid altogether. But, no longer for Hybrid car owners. In select cities across the US including Austin and Chicago, Ikea is actually now offering up the best spots in the lot to those with ...
Innovation and Metered Parking Spots In San Francisco
July 25, 2008
I know it's been awhile but frankly things have been so busy that it's been hard to find time to write! I must say, for a startup business, not a bad problem to have. Stumbled on this today and am intrigued. So the city of San Francisco is launching a really interesting approach to parking in the city. As of this fall 6,000 of the city's 24,000 metered parking spaces ...
Parking In Brooklyn, NY Takes on a Whole New Meaning
April 18, 2008
As we are good people who do appreciate that cars and traffic etc. are taking claim to much of urban space, we thought it only fair to pass on to you all this clip. Shot in Brooklyn, this parking story is a little different then the previous ones we've shared. Intro as follows, and then watch this vid...pretty interesting statement being made. "In June 2006, Transportation Alternatives volunteers staged a ...
Find (or rent) a parking spot easily!
March 25, 2008
Toronto-based ParkingSpots.com is a new site that lets you easily find a parking spot when you need one – anywhere in Canada and the U.S. Imagine you've got an important business meeting somewhere around the Yonge & Eglinton area in midtown Toronto and don't know where to find a good spot. At this site you can type in the address or postal code you're going to and with the ...
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