Aug

9

Businesses Want You To Pay More To Park

Those of you with cars know the perils of parking in Center City. In short: It’s impossible! Either you drive around for 45 minutes looking for a spot or you end up parking at like 21st and Christian and walking to Rittenhouse or wherever.

Well, it’s about to get a little … uh, more annoying to park, since soon you’ll have to feed the meter ’til 10 p.m. across all of Center City. The reason for this change is not the complaints of economists that on-street parking is too cheap — economists will complain about anything being too inexpensive, including sunshine and rainbows and butterflies — but because businesses want you to pay more to park:

“Because they’re finding that as their hours are extending, and people are staying out longer, they (the businesses) want to have a way (for customers) to park. And if your regulations end at a certain time, that turnover is not taking place.”

Uh, yeahhhh… okay. Fortunately for us, once they install new parking kiosks nobody will have any idea how to use them and the city won’t get any money.

New Rules For On-Street Parking in Center City [KYW 1060]
June 27: How Many Philadelphians Does It Take To Use A Parking Meter?

dmac | 10:07 AM | 2 Comments

Center City, Parking Meters

Nicki Says: Aug 9 12:14 PM

Living car free in Center City is a must if you, uh, perhaps failed your driver’s test once for not being able to parallel park, and researched the state to see which test centers didn’t make you do it before you took the test again. But I wouldn’t know anything about that.
ALB Says: Aug 9 12:19 PM

For that high a cost, I would want Alycia Lane to greet me wearing a bikini and give me a kiss whenever I parked.