Parking
There Will Never Be “Enough” Parking – Streetsblog USA
Here me out: there will never be enough parking.
What isn’t unique to Rochester, is that there is actually far more parking than there are people. In America, the estimate is roughly 800 million parking spaces (for a population slightly over 300 million in our country, and far fewer drivers than that). We don’t have a supply problem. This is a demand problem…
Stacked Mechanical Parking Lots in NYC – Untapped New York
Parking your car in New York City can be a herculean task, particularly in the densest borough, Manhattan. Since the early 20th century, inventors have been bent on finding a way to maximize space in parking lots. In 1941, patent filed by O. A. Light, made it possible to stack three cars on top of each other. It was based on the schematic of an earlier patent filed in New York City by Max Miller which used hydraulic lifts to raise cars, leaving a roadway unobstructed. With the automobile boom of the middle of the last century came a boom in creative and automated ways to park them. But is it safe to park your car there?
Parking Has Eaten American Cities
Parking eats up an incredible amount of space and costs America’s cities an extraordinary amount of money. That’s the main takeaway of a study that looks in detail at parking in five U.S. cities: New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Des Moines, and Jackson, Wyoming.