Parking Stinks - Let Science Fix It

Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 17:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Parking is a funny thing; no one is ever happy with it. Even if you go to Disney World, which has come as close as anyone to mastering the perception you are moving while you really go nowhere inside the park itself, the parking is horrendous outside.  If something is popular enough you want to go, the parking will be crowded.  Sometimes you may not go at all because you think about parking.Researchers estimate that for every 110 vehicles circulating on the roads looking for spaces, there are 100 available spots, both in lots and on the street.  If so, that number is quite high, downright inefficient, but it still isn't high enough to make parking palatable. read more

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