02-12-2016, 10:55 AM
(02-12-2016, 10:21 AM)MidTowner Wrote: European cities of all sizes have extremely accurate and widespread information about parking availability. When you enter a small French (for example) city’s centre by car, it’s routine to see directional signs pointing to its two or three main parking garages, and a green number indicating the number of spots in each (if there are spots available). A driver can quickly choose to head for the garage or lot with more spots available (and avoid lots with no spots available), confident that he will find a place to park when he gets there.
If they can do it, we can do it here, too, and I think parking information is a great suggestion. I haven’t heard how expensive it is, but since it’s so common elsewhere it must not be prohibitively so.
Yes, Calgary has real-time parking info:
https://www.calgaryparking.com/web/guest...stallcount
I thought I'd also seen directional signs towards parking on the street in Calgary, but I'm not sure about that.
Calgary also used to post stats about historical parking availability, but I can't find it in the aftermath of a site revamp.
I'm pretty sure that Waterloo is not actually running out of parking. Very few North American cities are in that situation.