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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