Parking management
Brooklyn to feature North America’s largest automated parking facility
In keeping with Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aspirations for New York City’s technological future, construction began this month on what will be North America’s largest automated parking facility. Located a half block from Fulton Street mall in downtown Brooklyn, the nearly 700-unit parking garage will extend 37 feet underground and include robotic features that require no […]
Fake permits make parking a beach in New Hampshire coastal town
The summer may be drawing to a close, but parking troubles at the coastal town of Seabrook, New Hampshire, look like they’re just beginning. A spotlight was thrown on the issue of fake permits last week when a police officer discovered that owners of beach properties have been forging parking placards and distributing the fakes […]
Crackdown on disabled parking placard abuse in Washington state
Volunteers for the Lacey Police Department in Washington state kept having to ask themselves: Were the disabled parking placards they were finding in drivers’ cars valid? Drivers were placing them on vehicle dashboards and then deliberately hiding the expiration date, the volunteers said in their complaints to Rep. Sam Hunt, D-Olympia, last year. The state legislator […]
Vigilante app or helpful aid for accessible parking?
Winnipeg, Canada, became the testing ground last month for a mobile app that is either a boon for frustrated drivers, city revenues, and the disabled in search of accessible parking, or an enabling force for bounty hunters and nightmarish litigation. The app, called Spot Squad, allows users to take a photo of a parking violation—a […]
The end of free disabled parking?
Known (and satirized) for its eco-friendly, left-leaning politics, Portland, OR, may have recently hardened its warm, fuzzy public image. Last week an editorial in the local paper suggested that those with accessible parking permits should pay for on-street parking—just like everyone else. Does this spell the end of free disabled parking? Currently, Portland, like many […]
The Netherlands gets its first smart parking system
Zoetermeer, the third largest city in the South Holland province of The Netherlands, becomes the country’s first to install a smart parking system as workers begin embedding the round, wireless parking sensors into each parking space in the city’s center. Once embedded, the sensors work by detecting a vehicle’s presence, information it then sends to […]
5 clues that a parking revolution is sweeping the nation
Rummaging in your pocket for a quarter to pay the meter, leaving in the ninth inning of a tie game to avoid a parking ticket, walking eleven inconvenient blocks because you couldn’t find a closer parking spot—these possibilities may become moot if a parking revolution really is occurring in America, as a report released by […]
Ohio State parking changes are really for your benefit. Promise.
When, in June 2012, Ohio State decided to lease its parking operations to QIC Global Infrastructure and LAZ parking in a fifty-year contract, reactions were mixed. The Ohio State parking system went for 483 million dollars and many didn’t mind the change. However, the transition didn’t go as smoothly as many had hoped. Many were […]
Clash over church parking lot in Chicago
Despite quoting scripture, attendees at an informal community meeting in Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, were anything but peaceable. The crowd of nearly 100-strong gathered early this month to voice opposition to a proposal from the Orchard Evangelical Free Church, which plans to clear nine of its properties for a $1 million surface […]
Tension over student parking at the University of Alabama
When enrollment reached a record high of 33,602 last fall and 300 parking spaces were lost due to construction projects, it was easy to predict that tensions over student parking at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa would rise. “Right now it feels like the parking system is taxed to capacity. It’s not horrible, but […]
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