Parking troubles solved

I don't know the rate of heart attacks caused by parking trouble, but I am sure it's significant. Thus solutions are welcomed.

In Pacific Grove, a coastal resort town by the Monterey Bay in California, they have found a solution inspired by the hospitality business: increased parking turnover. By using a digital system that charges you more and more per hour they enable people to make small arrends while long-term parkers are to find spots outside the city. The parking spots are equipped by a wire grid under the pavement that triggers a sensor when the car moves, resetting the level to the next parker.

Hopefully the solution can decrease the so annoying hunt for parking spots, which also causes a lot of polution.

Comments

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What's the difference with that compared to the ordinary way where it's more expensive to park nearby the city than in the outskirts?

[Hans Eric Melin]

It allows you to do short arrends but not to park just by the theatre while you're watching a long movie. Unless you want to pay more for parking then for the movie ticket.

Of course the system should be regarded from an American point of view where people can cry loud for paying a dollar per hour. Not as in Scandinavia where 3 dollars is normal. Then, an progressive increase from 1 to 4 dollar will make a difference.