In his article “Metered Parking”, George Liu reported on our presentation and panel discussion with Jay Primus, ex-project manager at SFpark.
“Surface parking is disappearing in downtown Toronto as cranes transform asphalt lots into buildings. Driven by increasing population density, curbside competition often sparks conflicts among loading, parking and thru traffic functions. In a presentation to the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute, Toronto transportation services senior engineer Paul Sabo said the city is careful to balance various user groups’ access to increasingly scarce curb space, and the conflict among them is exacerbated by the massive growth that is occurring in the downtown.” Read more...Metered Parking by George Liu, NRU Publishing Inc
Posted with permission of the publisher of NRU Publishing Inc. Original article first appeared in Novae Res Urbis – Toronto Edition, Vol. 20 No. 6, Friday, February 12, 2016.