When was the last time you thought about parking?
You probably don’t think about parking until you have to find somewhere to park. Why would you? It’s the most mundane thing on earth.
A study by the Daily Mail found that drivers spend 17 days of their lives trying to find the perfect parking spot. By the time you die, you will have spent 17 days of your life desperately thinking about nothing but parking.
Parking is a mundane thing, but it matters quite a lot to the average citizen. There’s a lot more to it than you think.
Urban planners can tell you that parking is one of the most frustrating parts of designing, building or renewing a city.
The faster a citizen parks, the sooner the traffic moves. A city’s efficiency is in many ways tied to the way its inhabitants move and rest. It’s not easy to keep a city’s inherited beauty while ensuring there’s space for new cars.
Even if you create enough parking space in your city, it still may not be enough to keep cars off the road. The spaces have to be easy to find and use to convince people to park properly. Once they’re all out of patience, citizens will park illegally, one of the most common crimes in the world. Illegal parking is a long lasting threat to roomy roads, clutter-free footpaths and the city’s income.
You may not have been thinking about parking, but you must have thought about the climate recently. When parkers waste fuel looking for parking spots, their carbon footprint grows. Smarter, faster parking can reduce a city’s carbon footprint dramatically.
Parking is a mundane thing, but it plays into so many parts of our lives and our future. If you’d like to start thinking more about parking, we can help you out.
PitStop is where you can find the answers to all your parking-related questions. We talk about everything from basic parking facts to automated parking lots to solar-powered garages and eco-friendly parking. We try to cover everything you need to know to be up to date about the world of parking.
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