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JVH comments on Parking News every day at PT Blog – log on at www.parkingtoday.com. Each month, there are at least 40 other comments like these, posted daily.


Overnight Parking Ban Many cities have an overnight on-


street parking ban. No parking between 3 and 5 a.m. I have some random thoughts on this procedure. The pur- pose seems to be to stop the “storage”


of vehicles on-street and force people to put their cars in their driveways, garages and parking lots. Fair enough. But what if you don’t have one of


the above? The ban might make the streets


“look” better, but what about people who have issues – broken cars, a tad too much to drink, visitors unaware of the ban. Is it really a revenue generator? If so, why not charge people who


park between 3 and 5 a.m. Instead of a $30 ticket, why not a $10 parking fee? Same procedure. Or my best solution: Charge


everyone for parking on-street. Sell permits to residents. They can buy extras at a discounted rate for limited use.The revenue would be good for the city, which would use it for repaving streets and the like (right), and it would motivate people not to park on- street if they had an alternative. The $10 on-the-spot fee would be


collected just like parking citation fees, but it would make more sense and be more palatable and fair. We force people who may be ine-


briated to drive to not get a ticket, when they would be much better off taking a cab or even sleeping it off in their car.


Floating Garage There seems to be some discus-


sion about a “floating” parking garage proposal in Pensacola Beach, FL. A local boat designer made the recom- mendation. It was panned by the local press, and he has responded (see May 26 PT Blog for link). Correspondent Mark has these


comments: Call me crazy, but I can’t see the


sense in this. Where do you put the ingress/egress lanes to the garage? If you build it along the lines of a ferry dock, you eliminate the flexibility of placement that he (the designer) argues about. His argument about hurricanes


doesn’t make sense to me. Once a storm is in the Gulf, exactly how do you “move” the thing to get it out of the way? ... (It) sounds absurd tome. Of course, the very fact that I’m


writing this means the concept is at least provoking some thought on the issues they have in Pensacola. Mark and I are of a different opin- ion on this one. I think it’s an idea that


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