Parking management
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 […]
Starved for student parking in Morristown, NJ
Last week New Jersey student Vincent Leahey demonstrated yet again the greater interest American youth are taking in politics. The vice president of Morristown High School’s senior class strode to the mic at a town council hearing to talk about student parking, a subject that has disgruntled Leahey’s classmates. Since the council approved an ordinance […]
Smithsonian parking lot theft: how it happened
The close of last month signaled not just the end of April, but the expiration of a three-year contract between Parking Management Inc. (PMI) and the Smithsonian Institution’s air and space center in Chantilly, Virginia. The management company had been hired to oversee parking services for the Smithsonian, but several of PMI’s employees were found […]
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