Year: 2014

If you’ve ever doubted the cultural significance of parking, consider a just-published coffee table book by Andy Spade. According to the Wall Street Journal: A

I’m not sure I dare disagree with a parking expert like Donald Shoup, but as a parking civilian, I have my doubts about at least

I visited a friend at a major corporation last week. When she walked into the lobby to greet me she said “happy holidays”  I responded

A Colorado Springs business owner is making it a holiday tradition to dress up like an elf and hand out parking money. According to gazette.com,

In a move that could be called genius, but is really just plain common sense, San Antonio International Airport has opened an extra parking lot

We all make mistakes. I never do anything much worse than forget to floss, but it’s a mistake nonetheless, and I hope people will not

I also saw this story  as I was perusing parknews.biz.  Seems the city dads and moms in Brisbane in the land of OZ are giving

Don Shoup is at it again. We ran an article in Parking Technology Today in October which was scheduled for his “Access” magazine.  We titled

Besides the gifts and the parties, there’s something else about that holiday season that makes it so enjoyable: the sense that just about anything can

…Money I’m sure most parking attendants and enforcement officers out there have dozens of stories about being yelled at, sworn at and threatened, but a

The consumerist.com reports that a 7-month breach of the garage parking payment systems run by a major parking provider in several states has put customers’

Technology is King.  We know that with the right technology theft and error will go away and yes, we will have a perfect industry. In

It can be hard for the people who live in moderate climates to understand how snow changes the parking scene. I’ve lived in snowy places

How can we possibly have a happy Thanksgiving. The world is aflame — Ebola is still killing in Africa, the murders in the Middle east

I have been receiving input from across the globe concerning 3M’s decision to close its parking division after only about 18 months in the business.

The average U.S. citizen has serious doubts about the effectiveness and honesty of government. When we think about it rationally, we know there’s no perfect

3M announced today that it has made the decision to close its parking manufacturing operation. The company said that it would ship product to its

There are a lot of dodgy smartphone apps for parking out there. Some sell you space that isn’t actually privately owned; others let you hold

At the University of Memphis, reports thedailyhelmsman.com, parking enforcement officers have brought in more than $2 million during the last 6 years. The ticket fines

I was in Indianapolis Today and dropped by the T2 System’s “Connect 2014” annual four day extravaganza and as usual, I was impressed. The company

There are a lot of opinions out there and most of them are junk. I’m willing to include some of mine in the junk pile,

It’s Halloween and there’s no pretending this is an ordinary day. Children across the country are out of their minds with joy, and their parents

In Princeton, New Jersey, residents and city leaders are moaning, groaning and griping about a parking garage that has been a complete failure. The entire

There seems to be no question that the NPA Convention and Trade event last week was a grand success. Numbers were up, exhibitors were smiling,

In New Hampshire, Keene residents have formed a group they call Robin Hood of Keene, which roams the town feeding parking meters to save other

Wow!  Christine Banning and her team have done it again. The NPA Convention this week at Caesars in Las Vegas is a thundering success. Over

In October’s Issue of Parking Technology Today, we printed a news release that said that Advanced Access Controls in Southern California had become a part

A survey conducted for a group called Easytrip in Ireland has revealed that 45 percent of Irish drivers will pass up a parking spot if

So much of parking news is about new policies, new meters, new applications and the forward motion of the industry. So, I was intrigued by

Thinking about the worst is the worst, but somebody’s got to do it. After two attacks on women at a downtown Minneapolis parking structure, local

Technology and parking have a complicated relationship. In some areas, technology is embraced; in other areas, it is reviled. Sometimes, technology is used in ways

My morning email brought two subjects to the fore.  One, by Colleen Niese spoke about the need for having the right title for the position

Parking Today’s new sister publication Parking Technology Today is now available on line.  You can read it here. With SMC’s Mayra Harley on the cover

Michael Delahanty, Operations Manager, Parking & Transportation Services at the  University of Arizona and Roberta J. Rosen, President & Chief Executive Officer of Turbo Data

In New Jersey, according to NJ.com, state leaders are considering bills that would offer free meter parking for disabled veterans and Congressional Medal of Honor

In the West Midlands area of England, a parking authorities serving railway and metro stations are cracking down on “selfish” parkers. It’s a surprising, yet

The Middle Atlantic Parking Association held its annual conference yesterday in Baltimore. The Parking Industry Exhibition was fortunate enough to be able to sponsor part

I’ll admit, I’ve never thought about parking reform and affordable housing as a combination, but then, I’m not an industry expert. So, I read this

The owners of FlightCar, a service that organizes the rental of private vehicles from airports, have just scored a $13.5 million investment deal with GGV

Well, maybe in the New York Post — The entire article is here. The gist is that climate weenies like Leo DiCaprio are railing against

That is the timeless excuse whether you are a tenth grader trying to get a few extra days on that book report, or the IRS

Our New Magazine, Parking Technology Today premiers in mid October and I am looking at some early proofs now and it is super.  Not only

I have been spending quite a bit of time on Parknews.biz lately looking for ideas for blogs. I can jump on a few of them

I had lunch the other day with an auditor and we were laughing about an incident that happened in the Parking Today world about a

I was interviewed today by the Kiplinger Group. They are doing some research on the next 10 things that are going the way of the

Just when you start to think the world is a dirty, ugly, awful place, you read about parking meter donations raising $8,500 for the homeless.

Editor’s note: Sometime-PT Correspondent Jeff Pinyot, President of Eco Parking Lights, posted a commentary on the IPI website (Parking Matters: The Blog) that piqued my

The late great Tip O’Neill, political powerhouse from Massachusetts, claimed that all politics were local. He had a point. people tend to vote their pocketbooks

It wouldn’t be college without some parking issues – learning to deal with adversity is an important part of being an adult. Students at Missouri

I don’t know what’s crazier: municipalities forcing people to pay for messed up parking tickets, or people spending huge amounts of time and energy to

There was a time when people speculated that machines would eventually rule the world, but I think it’s been pretty well established that machines need

We have received word that Dennis Quinn, longtime parking fixture in the Chicago area, passed away on August 16 after a long illness.  He was

In Paw Paw, Mich. residents are not completely sure the city’s new “back-on” policy is so simple. Fox News reports Paw Paw’s downtown is plagued

Tech Crunch coined a new term, JerkTech. according to them: “All of these apps are essentially tools for scalping a public good or open resource.

People love their pets like children. They buy them personalized collars, beds and blankets; they buy them strollers and sweaters; they take them everywhere they

I have known Jim Bond for over 30 years. I can’t say we were close, but Jim was always friendly. He worked at many levels

Our Cover this month show a “monkey” parking a car. OK, photoshop is wonderful, it’s our fauna challenged art department and editorial staff that can’t

There are a lot of words in that headline, but when it comes to hot topics like “self driving” and “automated parking” there’s no use

Every so often I come across a term of which I am unfamiliar. Typically I nod sagely and then run to Google to see what’s

When Astrid posted this article from “Cult of Mac” a Bay Area Blog on Parknews.biz I was excited.  Wow, something that worked and worked well. 

Somebody with a can of spray paint is telling Queens-area parkers they’re doing a bad job. Critical comments were painted on two cars overnight, reports

Sometime PT correspondent Jeff Pinyot wrote a blog for the IPI site which peaked by curiosity. He seems to relatively successfully hold both sides of

…except he wasn’t the parking attendant. In Denver, a parking lot employee poseur has been taking money from parking patrons, even though the signs state

Shakespeare said “All the world is a stage” and he was right, thoughI’m not sure he was thinking of parking lots. Some 20 years ago

The end of Sunday parking fees is here. After a year or so of charging for Sunday meter parking, San Francisco is repenting its policy.

My presentation before the World Parking Symposium last week in Tel Aviv went well.  So well, there were no questions.  I guess I just did

The World Parking Symposium, Canada’s semi annual fete to the scholarly side of parking, got under way yesterday at Herod’s Hotel on Tel Aviv’s beautiful

There’s always a lot to say about the abuse of disabled parking placards, and usually, it’s about the low-down, rotten people cheating the system. This

A Los Angeles website that claims to highlight the best and the worst of LaLa land has published a photo of a 1-minute parking sign.

I heard from a friend in Melbourne, Australia, that the city is installing a system of pay by cell phone. In addition to embracing the

Joining a number of other cities including Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Phoenix has decided to jump on the Shoupista band wagon and institute

As i was looking through Park News today an interesting article caught my eye. It was datelined Dubai: A locally-made device will help Dubai Police

In Birmingham, Alabama near the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, some 700 parking spots are about to be eliminated. According to Al.com the Alabama Department of Transportation

Some people take the concept of “profit sharing” into their own hands. An employee is believed to have stolen $336 from a Jeanette, Pennsylvania city

There’s a lot of parking news out there – and even a special place for the best of it to be gathered at ParkNews.biz. Between

It appears we have a hit. The buzz at the IPI that our ParkNews.biz site is a hit. We are walking about with business cards

We all know that the numbers (attendee, exhibitor personnel, etc) at trade shows are mostly unknowable. The information we get from the organizers is sketchy,

Schools are notorious for creating parking issues. Whether it’s an elementary school, high school trade school or university, the parking situation is going to be

We have been led to believe that “Madison Avenue” creates markets and force or entice consumers to buy stuff.  MacDonalds, Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble,

That’s the number of followers I have on twitter. Its not a huge number since I’ll bet my granddaughter has more. But for a vertical

Here’s a new one, Citi Bike, a bike-sharing program in New York City, is being required to reimburse New York for revenue lost since 2013.

My grandmother lived to be 99 years old. She was born in a tent in the middle of nowhere and lived to see the inventions

It’s a pretty basic rule of economics: if there is a high demand for your service, you can charge more for that service. A related,

Parking Today, Parking Technology Today, and the Parking Industry Exhibition are proud to announce a new arrival, ParkNews. To View Parknews, click here Its a

Isiah blogs about the Watergate Buildings in DC, and their relationship to our political history. He notes that the reporters from the Washington Post who

  Miami Beach, FL-May 12, 2014– Parkmobile USA, Inc. and Miami Beach Parking announced today a program that will allow customers to use their mobile

I like to stay apprised of current events and I recently read about the threat of impending worldwide devastation due to melting ice in Antarctica.

I got this release from a reader who normally has good input. This time I think we need to give the LPR industry a bit

A new smartphone app is connecting people who need parking with people who have parking. In congested cities like Boston, reports CBS Boston’s The Daily

A guest post by Vicki Pero, principal of the Marlyn Group… When Women In Parking became a formal organization in late 2011, there were no

 From T2:  Indianapolis, IN – May 6, 2014 – The Board of Directors of T2 Systems (T2) and Digital Payment Technologies (DPT) announced today that

There’s a lot of parking out there, and it seems some people think we could turn over a few spots for the greater good. Minneapolis

Yesterday, technical difficulties forced Los Angeles International Airport to shut down for at least an hour. Travel chaos ensued as incoming flights were diverted, outgoing

Maybe its just me, but when I hear about a city declaring parking ticket amnesty, I get all flustered and irate. The latest is Detroit. 

Yes, we are all sick of Donald Sterling and his racist rants and his loss of the LA Clippers. But here is a little tidbit

In the post below, Paul talks about Boston and the fact that 5% of the tickets are voided administratively. The assumption being that the tickets

It has been reported that in Boston nearly 72,000 parking citations were dismissed in 2013. A Bostonherald.com article says: “71,922 of 1.3 million tickets issued

April 30, Rush Street Lounge in Culver City… Whitney Taylor of Sentry Control Systems, began her career in the parking industry 2 years ago. After

I wrote this article a week or so ago: https://www.parkingtoday.com/blog/2014/04/ive-been-saying-this-for-years-but-nobody-listens/ Basically I challenged the Pay on Foot/Display/Space equipment manufacturers to show me how they have