The Cost of USA Traffic Choices
1,825: Total vehicle miles cars travel per curb space every year just looking for parking, according to Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking.
$1 billion: How much New York City is currently owed in unpaid parking and speeding tickets, according to the Independent Budget Office.
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12: City blocks that would be required for parking spaces if the Empire State Building was built with today’s requirements, according to urban policy journalist Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise.
76%: Percentage of US college students who say they have to pay to park on campuses, according to a 2022 Inside Higher Ed survey.
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@Madken65 Shoot, at MSU they just stole our parking spaces. DPS got them in the end though because you have to pay off all your fines, including parking tickets, before you are allowed to receive your diploma.