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McMahon Associates has promoted Casey A. Moore, P.E., to Principal and Mark A. Roth, P.E., to Associate. Moore is Vice President and serves as the firm’s Director of Business Development. Roth ...
Quixote Transportation Technologies (QTT) has appointed Mike Corbett as Director of Operations. In He will be responsible for directing, coordinating and overseeing project and material...
High Concrete Group has been recognized by the International Parking Institute (IPI) in its 2008 Awards for Excellence program. An independent panel of judges selected the Lehigh University Al...
Carl Walker Construction has been awarded a $16 million contract from Winthrop University Hospital to add three floors to its existing parking structure in Minneola, NY. The new parking capaci...
Metric Parking has appointed Sandy Mace as Development and Systems Manager. The defining point in his career so far has been the contactless credit card development. Mace, who has taken over Me...
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PARKING WHILE PREGNANT-TOO BAD THE STORK DOESN'T DELIVER GROCERIES.
By Melissa Bean Sterzick
I've aired a number of grievances in this column. I've complained about everything from
scary parking garages to holiday parking nightmares to outrageously enraged parkers. One thing I've been keeping on the back burner is a whopper of a gripe about the challenges of a certain parking demographic: pregnant women.
Earlier this year, California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore proposed legislation giving special parking privileges to women in their last three months of pregnancy and two months postpartum...
I had a conversation with PT Editor JVH over lunch a month or so ago, and the content of the conversation ended up anonymously in the PT blog. We have these conversations because we both are very driven to improve the public perception of the parking industry. Plus, we have had some version of this conversation many times over the years, and it usually revolves around how much money is not collected by the parking operations and the operators not really wanting the owners to know the truth...
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
 My spies over at Doug Holmes' great list server, C-park L, tell me that the topic of differing parking fees based on one's income has raised its ugly head. Seems the local union wants to charge Teaching Assistants and maintenance personnel a lower price for their permit than a tenured Professor or the Dean of Students. (One assumes they make less money that the Profs and Deans.) This is classic Karl Marx theory and is appropriate that it comes from our hallowed halls of higher education. The..
The City council of a major city in the Philippines has recommended to a local shopping mall that they put CCTV in their garages to aid in security. OK, good idea. Well, or is it. Â First, if the garage is not of the proper design, it will take hundreds of cameras to cover all the nooks and crannies where crimes could take place. Then it will take a lot of people in the security command center to monitor all those cameras. I don't know what the actual number is, but my guess would be that to b..
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