Does anyone have information about promoting paid parking in business districts, reducing parking place minimums in business districts and ride-share programs. I am especially interested in experience in small cities with tourist traffic.
Marion Huxtable
Paid Parking, Reducing Parking Minimums and Ride-Share
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I share an interest in this portion of the question. As well as should tax payers subsidize downtown parking, should there be maximums on shopping centers. . .must they be "day before Christmas" size all year?
Gael Entrikin
1508 28th St SW
Rochester MN 55902
507 288 3948
Gael,
In short, parking should always be paid for by the end-user, not the general public. Thus, all parking should be properly priced according to its use and demand, to the extent that one should always plan for approximately 80% occupation of a parking lot/street (a bit of economics and you'll get proper pricing to produce such occupation). Donald Shoup is particularly good at explaining this. I once again recommend his work. The topic of "maximums" or minimums is a bit more complicated, but in the end it's all about providing the fair amount of parking, not stories and stories of parking for everyone!
Best regards,
Carlosfelipe Pardo
GTZ SUTP
www.sutp.org
You might want to start by googling Duluth, Minnesota. The port city has evolved from primarily an industrial and shipping center to a major tourist destination with about 3.5 million. There are now huge parking problems in the downtown and harbor area due to tourist traffic. Rush hour starts Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Since the city is located along the shoreline of Lake Superior there is essentially one major artery through the city. http://www.visitduluth.com/ and http://www.duluth.com/ are two of the major tourist websites but they might link you to something productive.
Sarah Brodt Lenz
Program Administrator
Mn/DOT Office of Transit
(651)366-4177 voice
(651)366-4192 fax
Hi Marion
Vancouver, Canada has a newish ride-share program. The website is http://www.ride-share.com/
Hope it helps
Tina
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Marion,
The key document on parking policies and practices is Donald Shoup's "The high cost of free parking". Todd Litman has also a lot of information in his website www.vtpi.org (look into the TDM encyclopaedia". Finally, GTZ is about to publish a full document on TDM which will include parking (check out www.sutp.org in the following months).
Best regards,
Carlos