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Easy Parking in Downtown Milwaukee?
City unveils sign system to guide drivers to garages with available parking spots.
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There is a ton of parking Downtown. Making the garages brighter with the new sinage should help.
I hope this helps people realize just how much parking is available downtown . It’s readily accessible despite the uninformed whine that it isn’t.
But I think that when drivers complain, what they often really mean is… “Why isn’t there free parking immediately next to everything I want to go to, like in the suburbs?” Some people are frankly lazy and put out by the idea of walking a mere three blocks. Or they just don’t want to pay a fair rate for using and storing their vehicles in a dense area. Behind a lot of those complaints, I think, is this erroneous notion that driving is free of negative externalities, which of course isn’t true. But that’s a long debate for another day.
Paul Miller, “this erroneous notion that driving is free of negative externalities.”
Those negative externalities include those who disagree with them.
So how are the available spaces counted? Somehow that number ends up on the signs? Sounds like magic to me.
DWL, I assume that whenever a car enters the garage, the count is reduced by one. Whenever a car leaves the garage, the count is incremented.
Tom D,
Correct. But wondered who/what is counting the vehicles? Curious about the technology that’s all.
It’s good to see this used more in Milwaukee… I remember being amazed when I saw this for the first time in Hannover, Germany in 2000.
At least we’re moving in the right direction.
Those signs were $100K each ?