Year: 2011

Central has reduced its outstanding debt by selling a number of properties in New York City. You can read about it here. The gist: NASHVILLE,

He plead guilty to steering contracts to a certain company. That company collected coins from the city’s meters and apparently stole over a million in

OK, did this driver pay the appropriate fee: Its in Lebanon, the city of Nabatieh, which has a population of about 120,000.  A number of

Tom Cruise’s latest “Mission Impossible”  — the Ghost Protocol” — Is a fun, exciting, thriller. Don’t go see it if you are afraid of heights,

This time of year we pause and consider. We consider just what the holiday we celebrate means, its religious implications with a wonderful and mysterious

A university professor at the University of New Hampshire had his lawsuit thrown out by an appeals court after he sued everyone in sight over

Dan Huberty recently joined Central Parking as a VP.  Congratulations but that’s not what I’m writing about.  Dan is also a state legislator in the

The City of Fairbanks, AK, along with a lot of fanfare, built a parking garage to solve downtown parking issues nine years ago. Now, here

The issues surrounding Cale USA and its relationship with the City of Portland has motivated a change. The news release: CALE GROUP STRENGTHENS U.S. PRESENCE

If you are a died in the wool Sherlock Holmes fan and wince if Holmes actually wears a deerstalker in a movie (he never did

According to this article, the first reports in the massive demand pricing parking test are in in San Francisco, and it seems that the hiking

Here’s a self serving piece from NBC4 in Los Angeles that reports a shake up in the Los Angeles Parking enforcement operation. (Of course the

Oakland, Ca, is known for strange ideas from its government. After all, its just down the road from Berkeley, and you know what that means.

Below, Mark reacts to an article where the author posits that since “roads don’t make money,” rapid transit should not be held to a profit

Here’s a reporter who has come up with what he thinks is a good idea. Pay your parking tickets in advance. He starts with some

Yesterday we reported on our home page and on  Facebook, that the company that leased Chicago’s parking meters had sent a bill for $13.5 million

This Video has gone viral. Check it out. It shows a driver parking in a parallel space about a foot longer than his car, six

This is rich. They did a study in DC and the results were that cameras in parking lots don’t deter crime. Read about it here,

Heh — Over the past few years I have been railing against the Scottish Government and its ban on parking charges in local hospitals.  Yes

Saw the flick this weekend. Its a typically British, extremely complex spy story with ducks and dives on every turn. John LeCarre’s famous spy George

Its London, the West End. Center of entertainment, food, shopping, tourism. Hundreds of millions are spent there every year on all of the above. A

There’s a company in New Zealand that has a device that would help prevent disabled parking fraud. Read about it here. Its kind of neat

What is the matter with these people. Here’s the story. For the six of you that don’t immediately see the problem, I’ll parse it for

This is one of the oldest scams in the book. An employee who had access to monthly parking cards was selling them at a reduced

They seem to be next on the horizon. Google is developing the concept, along with many auto companies. Read all about it here. There are

Heh! I had a discussion with a friend the other day and he told me that he thought advertising was like “burning money.” He read

In the community of Otago they had a program where people who participating in ride sharing got a reduced parking rate. So far so good.

Something is going on.  In the past few days I have received four greetings from companies and every one wished me a “Merry Christmas.”  In

Before the first issue of PT was printed, we did a survey as to what potential readers wanted to see in the magazine.  By a

Thanks to Wanda over on PT’s Facebook Page for this post. Basically it is an editorial in a Calgary, Alberta, newspaper that supports charging for

Joe Sciulli over at CHANCE Management Advisers, Inc.,  penned a well received article in PT November, written in his usual cynical approach, regaling us on

In my previous blog I posited that being ‘green’ was reasonable when it was also good business. Garages having ‘green’ components usually have them because

A writer in the Montreal (Canada) Gazette was full throat-ed in his praise for the Toronto Parking Authority and its handling of a complaint from

I receive a release from the Green Parking Council about their new program to ‘certify’ garages as ‘green.’ LEED has blown parking off, so, as

I sit on a condo board and the meeting was last night. We ran through the people we were going to sent to the lawyers

This gal has lost it. Writing in the Windsor, ON, Star she takes off on cops who pay less to park than she does in

This gal in Colorado is hopping mad — not because she got a parking ticket — she says she deserved that — but because of

Mark is agitating for an “international” Baghdad by the Bay award for the most boneheaded parking rules in a ‘non USA” locale.  He nominates Brisbane

The Portland Oregonian posted an editorial they called the Sad Saga of Ellis McCoy. In it they noted that they thought that McCoy was guilty

Parking Today Sent four speakers to the ‘Expo Parking” event in Sao Paulo, Brazil this week. Dennis Cunning from the US, Sandra Smith from Canada,

Oh Please — We live in the richest, best fed, best housed, best everything country on the planet.  Maybe we could give thanks for that.

I know I have given the IPI some flack over their “Parking Matters” program but their most recent news release on “Parking Experts offer shoppers

The city of Chicago woke up a few days ago and found that one in eleven cars on its streets had handicapped permits.  In the

Read the post below, then this one. A street near where I was having breakfast was being blocked off because of a 5K that was

I parked in West Los Angeles the other day and was walking across the street as a PEO (That’s parking enforcement officer to you) walked

I learned from reading PT’s facebook page that the Brits are about to throw out millions of pounds in fines because the camera’s that caught

I commented last week on a conversation I had with David Cummin at ACS.  The topic was collecting data and using high tech smart phone

Some of PT’s staff and many or our friends are Penn State Alums.  To say there is sadness and confusion is an understatement. I really

I spent this morning with David Cummins, VP at ACS, a Xerox Company, in their offices in Germantown, Maryland. It was a wide ranging conversation,

Singapore’s Paul Barter, writing here in his ‘Reinventing Parking’ blog, discusses the problem with private parking kept for a single store. A drug store has

I’m traveling this week — Indianapolis, DC, and Atlanta. I’m at the Indy airport, which is brand new and beautiful, by the way, awaiting my

A few posts ago I commented on privatization at the Ohio State University and posited that the problem is, amongst other things, that they are

I don’t think so. I have reported on this before, thought it was a good idea then, and think it’s a good idea now. Its

Think about it — Millions of people drive millions of cars every day in Los Angeles, or New York, or Atlanta, or Houston — and

Check out the article on PT’s facebook page. Thanks to Wanda for catching this story.  It starts when they are concerned about people parking near

As avid readers of PT’s Parking Blog already know, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed a “congestion” tax which is basically an additional tax on parking

Parking is the most emotive issue on campus. One time University of California president Clark Kerr once said that he “has sometimes thought of the

Parking Today’s web site had just over 20,000 visits in October, a new record.  But the other item to note is that those 20,000 visits

I have always been a proponent of women, for more than the obvious reasons. Now that the British Commonwealth has ‘adjusted’ male primogeniture to remove

Paul Barter over at Reinventing Parking has coined the term “Adaptive Parking” and is using it to address the severe parking issues in emerging markets.

Westfield is the largest shipping center owner in Australia, if not the planet. They are beginning to charge for parking in their centers and this

Charlie points out that merchants want free parking and use almost any reason to justify it. Here’s an article in a Canadian publication. The article

Jersey City is removing some Multispace Pay and Display machines and replacing them with the older style single space meters that were there before.  From

Some of you must remember the cult series, Babylon 5, and the Psycorp’s famous operative, Bester.  He was played by the same actor that played

I have been scurrying around pestering my sources for the upcoming “Cutting Edge Technology” issue of PT (December). One of the main articles is to

I just received word that all the uproar over ‘apron’ parking, much of which was led by my neighbors, has paid off. You can get

Andy is proofing the November issue of PT and notes that our Amateur Parker, Melissa, actually got the term “Eye of Sauron” (From the “Lord

I thought it was telling that the major awards given by the NPA and the IPI this year went to consultants.  The NPA presented one

Mark nails it: When you put ALL the pieces of a parking and transportation plan in place it can actually work.  Too many Cities do

Why not hold it in a parking garage. This picture send in by Charles Huntzinger shows what happens at Ohio State: Charles’ Comment: Tailgating in

Philadelphia has a 20% parking tax.  It means that when you park, the operator slaps on an additional 20% which it turns over to the

I guess my unmitigated harassment of the Philadelphia Parking Authority has gotten some legs in Philly — They are retraining their officers so they will

This is post 2600 since PT’s Parking Blog started.  We have generated over 1700 legitimate comments.  Thank you for that. As I have mentioned before,

That’s the headline on a column from the Toronto Star. A working mother decided that even though it costs more to drive, it adds greatly

The keynote speaker the other day at the UCLA Automated Parking Seminar was Richard Katz, Chair, Metrolink Board of Directors, and Board Member, Metropolitan Transportation

An editor at the Norwalk (CT) Patch has written a wonderful column about parking minimums.  He is dead on with everything he says.  Read it

PT”s Astrid Ambroziak coined the phrase in this months number. Check it out. This post is about three issues. First the term “Range Anxiety” that

We threw out the idea of a “women in parking’ organization and invited a number of women to a ‘formation’ meeting during the IPI in

We ran an article on Lake Geneva, Wi, yesterday on the home page and FB/Twitter. You can read it here. Its an editorial by Lisa

I’ve heard about tunneling and drugs, but this takes the cake. Seems the Mexican Drug Cartels are digging tunnels under the border in Nogales, AZ,

The Ziman Center for Real Estate Studies put on a seminar on Automated (Robotic) Parking at UCLA yesterday and I attended along with Sandra Smith,

It is much more complicated than that, but its the gist. Hizzonner the mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, the Obama Chief of Staff who would never let

Wanda over on our Facebook page posted this article.  Basically it says the the Metro and The Virginia Railway Express (VRE) in the DC area.

From the opposite coast, the city of Wilmington, Delaware caught our eye with this from the “Town Square Delaware” blog. H/T Scott: I learned something

I flew home from Las Vegas last night after a truly charming time at the NPA Conference. There was a lot going on and a

From Mark: Seeing as I don’t know the specific circumstances or conditions in this particular market I’m in no position to take any kind of

Paul Milward at Bushnell Ribbon sent this in: My dog Hobie, has read your magazine cover to cover!   Not only are we full of

Mercy me, I just love “free” things.  My wife and I decided to get the heck out of Dodge this weekend and cram in one

Some Quick Tidbits: Robert Cizek has returned to Central Parking in a VP of Sales position. Jerry Skillett, late of Central Parking, has formed an

IBM’s big parking study said that people are frustrated with parking. WOW, now there’s a revelation. I have mentioned before that I believe that the

I have been having conversations with NPA members both yesterday and this morning and I get a common thread – good management and good service.

I was honored by the NPA be being invited to the Chairman’s Reception. It was a small gathering — about 30 or so people.  Chairman

I had just left the NPA reception.  It was great — good food, good drink, literally hundreds of people chatting. But it was time to

I”m leaving in the AM for the NPA at Caesars in Vegas.  I’m looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.  The NPA

From Mark: While I’m all for the advances in technology that are making parking operations more efficient and user friendly I gotta say that some

I know I should delete this post after writing, but I just can’t resist. The topic is such a target rich environment. As you probably

From Doug: One of the hotter topics currently on the CPARK-L parking listserv concerns ADA parking privileges and potential abuse thereof.  It seems that a

Mark comments on the IBM technology article Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, and new tools seem to be available everyday when it comes

I received a note from a woman who happens to read PT because she knows someone in the business.  She is an artist and, well

IBM has released a Global Parking Survey that tells us basically what we already know — In first world countries where parking is enforced and