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www.parkingtoday.com. Each month, there are at least 40 other comments like these, posted daily.
If you go to the online edition of December 2011 Parking
Today, youwill find all the “hot links”
below.And evenmore cur- rent comments by PT Editor JVH.
Parking Problem, Adaptive Solution
(Posted Nov. 10) Singapore’s Paul Barter, writing in his ‘Reinventing Parking’
(
www.reinventingparking.org) blog, discusses the problemwith pri- vate parking kept for a single store. A drug store has a few spaces, I go to the drug store and buy something, then walk down the street to another, and then a third. The druggist is upset because I’m tak- ing his parking space while shopping at others. Paul suggests that parking districts be set up so that all the
small lots in a business district can be pulled together and run as one. Free market pricing would be used. And all merchants would be happy with the result. Great idea, but I think it could be done without government
intervention.What if a private operator proposed the solution to the merchants? The operator would take care of the paperwork, collect the money, and distribute the profits. The “downtown merchants” could validate if they liked, or share in the rewards. Parkers could
park anywhere but would, bymeans of a rate structure, not overstay the limits set by the merchants. Once again, Paul is ‘reinventing parking’ in Singapore.
‘Adaptive Parking’ (Posted Oct. 28)
Paul Barter, over at his Reinventing Parking Blog, has coined
the term “Adaptive Parking” and is using it to address the severe parking issues in emerging markets – in this case, India. The Aus- tralian transport specialist, based at the School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, spoke at a late-summer con- ference in Delhi. His description: The Adaptive Parking reform agenda is based on [UCLA
Professor] Donald Shoup’s approach but tries to extend it. It aims to make Shoup’s market-oriented parking reform agen- da general enough to be relevant to places very different from NorthAmerica. It also offers guidance on howtomove in that directionwith baby steps, even if your city is not ready to take on thewhole package of Shoupista reforms. Hmmmm, perhaps Paul has a point. Asian cities may not be
ready for a whole Shoupista package, but then, maybe some here in the U.S. may not be ready either. Check out his talk – “Promising Parking Policies Worldwide:
Lessons for India?” – at his blog site. Here’s a taste: Much parking policy aims to expand off-street parking
out of fear of on-street chaos. But off-street supply cannot Continued on Page 38
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