Parking study

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Thu, 11/13/2008 - 4:17pm

M1EK immediately pointed me to a 2000 City of Austin survey of downtown parking.  According to this chart, 42% of the total available garage spaces sat empty during the peak hours.

 That's good evidence the problem is one of coordination and not supply.

Parking_utilization

That was eight years ago.

 Has average utilization gone up or down?  My guess is down because of the large amount of parking mandated for new high-rises.

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