Well there's your problem right there!
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:14 am
Cut your enforcement staff by 3/4. Make nearly all parking free and even save money doing it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... from-them/
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... from-them/
see link for more. The graphics are pretty graphic, as graphics go.Detroit spends more money issuing parking fines than it collects from them
By Emily Badger
March 19 at 1:57 pm
Detroit has a number of problems with parking, not the least of which is that the city has way too much of the stuff. Spend an afternoon driving through Detroit, and it's immediately clear that there are more parking garages, street meters and surface lots downtown than people who actually want to park there (or destinations that might lure them). This weird imbalance of vacant blocks and excess parking is no accident: The more of the latter the city created over time – often tearing down buildings to make way – the less attractive the downtown became for anyone who drove there, and then actually wanted to walk around. ... "
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