[MassHistPres] parking spaces

[Dennis De Witt]

Marcia

Last summer there was a mini-Parking Symposium in Brookline called  
"better parking / Better brookline".  One of the presentations was:

“Getting Parking Right” by
Jason Schrieber: Principal, Nelson/Nygaard a
leading consulting firm specializing in Transit Oriented
Development, Travel Demand Management
and parking management.

His argument was that most parking is over-designed so that no one is  
ever inconvenienced, even though 80% of the time you might need, say,  
only 50% of the spaces.  Think of any shopping center parking lot.   
His core argument was that there are huge private as well as public  
subsidies to the automobile in the form of excessive parking capacity.

It is definitely a minority position among traffic engineers but some  
Googling might produce useful information.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline

On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Marcia Starkey wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The center of downtown Greenfield is working toward redevelopment of  
> seven historic buildings surrounding the town common. The  
> Redevelopment Authority has said that investors require dedicated  
> adjacent parking which in turn requires removal of a significant  
> building for "convenient" expansion of the town parking lot next  
> door. As an area in flux, parking space is now adequate.
>
> Online information from a state and federal agencies on the question  
> of parking supply seems to say that a number of strategies can be  
> used to make the best use of existing spaces, and control of  
> parking, especially downtown is inmunicipal
> hands.
>
> Has anyone experienced redevelopment project failures due to  
> somewhat less than optimum and dedicated parking space?
> Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
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