Parking in Waterloo Region

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I do too, minus that little problem I seem to keep hearing about, of the difficulty going further underground in parts of uptown.

Well, the part that I care about is that it's in a mixed-use building. If the parking is above ground like in 1 Victoria, that's OK too.

How much of the issue of nobody using the Bauer underground lot would be solved if the ramp had a sign like GO parking structures do, indicating how many public spots were available? I doubt you'd need the floor-by-floor breakdown GO provides, but nonetheless, signs like these, why aren't they more prevalent? Imagine a Green P symbol with two arrows and two numbers. On the top of the P, an arrow indicating to a driver (say on King St) that if they go straight, they can find 300 open parking spaces, and below the P, an arrow pointing left or right, indicating that this particular turn can guide you to 12 open parking spaces? Put a sign like this at the main turns for parking (William to City Hall lot, Willis Way to Regina lots, Parkade, and Shops lots, Bridgeport to the Regina/Bridgeport lots), and hopefully eliminate indecision and circulation that cause instantaneous traffic and frustration, as well as having it as a mental soothe, so that someone contemplating going to UpTown would know that they would be directed to parking spaces, removing a possible hesitation on their part.