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Crowded rest areas prompt states to help truckers find parking spaces
Eight Midwestern states have joined together to try to solve the lack of available parking for long-haul truckers. The goal is to establish an app that truckers could access to find parking spots in rest areas and truck stops. The technology is now needed more than ever as a federal law takes effect in December […]
November 9, 2017
Roadbuilding
A frozen over meter doesn’t mean you’re off the hook from paying
Think you’ve caught a lucky break if the buttons on the parking meter you pull up to are frozen and stuck? If you’re in the City of Columbus, Ohio, you can think again. Instead of getting free parking, city officials are warning motorists that they need to find another parking spot if the meter buttons […]
January 6, 2014
Roadbuilding
A Nutty Way to Pay For Parking
Before many old-school meters were updated to accept payment by credit cards, I often scrounged around in my car and the bottom of my purse looking for change to pay to park. If I were in England, I could pony up the money by just looking around outside. The Town Centre Car Parks is temporarily […]
September 25, 2013
Roadbuilding
The Park-O-Meter turns 78
On July 16, 1935, in Oklahoma City, parking changed forever. There, on the sidewalk, the parking motorist found a new contraption. The parking meter had arrived. Thank you, Carl C. Magee. No more free parking, not even parking under time limit signs, but pay up front and make sure you don’t forget to feed it […]
July 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Parking It
I remember being in Paris once and after a few days it occurred to me I had not seen an available parking space. Ah yes, the parking space. Surely there is a commodity exchange for those? And anger management courses? Well, the city of Los Angeles has a new system where you would pay more […]
July 5, 2013
Roadbuilding
The downtown parking/housing dynamic
Lots of words out there, especially recently, on the role that downtown parking plays in the life of a city. We’re seeing debates about who lives in the city with the biggest parking deserts, which city parking structures and lots create the worst heat islands and the emergence of “elastic parking spaces” where daytime parking […]
April 2, 2013
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