Standard Parking Corp has been awarded contracts to provide parking management services for Yankee Stadium in New York, the Washington Square Office Complex in Minneapolis and the City Center i...
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...
Walter P Moore has added top structural engineering talent in its Los Angeles office with expertise in secure and seismic engineering design services. Managing Director is Joseph M. Ales Jr., P...
Genetec has announced that within the last four months, five police departments in Texas have selected AutoVu, its advanced license plate recognition solution, to automate recovery of stolen ve...
Global flooring manufacturer Flowcrete Group has created the role of Global Marketing Manager to spearhead its worldwide marketing function. Ian Dawson, currently Flowcrete’s International Mark...
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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...
Hold on ot your wallets. LA is considering raising taxes and hiding it as a fee increase. They are looking at "everything dealing with revenue" and considering how to fill the deficit by increasing revenue rather than decreasing expenses. Oh, sure, they will close a few libraries and narrow the hours on parks, but the bureaucracy downtown, fuggetaboutit... It like a T rex, raising its head over a treeline. Slowly looking around, hungrily searching for its next meal. Its beady eyes checkin..
There have been a number of articles in the MSM lately describing local city councils raising parking fees. They are similar in one aspect. The rise in onstreet parking pricing has absolutely nothing to do with availability of parking, need for parking, number of cars needing parking at a particular time. If you read between the lines, the rates are set based on the revenue they will produce. In other words, they are a tax, not a fee. Fees are based on providing a service. Say for instance, you..
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