What are the Hidden Costs of Free Parking?

Posted on October 19, 2006 
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November 2nd
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Fletcher Opera Theatre
Raleigh, NC

The Raleigh Urban Design Center, a division of the City Planning Department, with support from Kimley-Horn and Associates, the Triangle Transit Authority, and the Raleigh Convention Center, will present a lecture on parking management by Dr. Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and author of The High Cost of Free Parking. An internationally renowned parking expert, Dr. Shoup has extensively studied the issue of parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment.

Professor Shoup’s research on employer-paid parking led to the passage of California’s parking cash-out law and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out. For more information about Dr. Shoup, see http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu.

There will be a question-and-answer session following Dr. Shoup’s lecture. The lecture is free to the public. To register to attend, go to www.raleighnc.gov., click on “Departments” at the top of the page and then click on “Planning.” See the link, “Hidden Costs of Free Parking Lecture.”

If you have any questions, please contact Trisha Hasch.

Note that in addition to available parking, the Moore Square Bus Station is within walking distance of the Progress Energy Performing Arts Center. For a service schedule, click on http://www.ridetta.org/Bus_Shuttle/Maps_Schedules/routesSchedulesAndMaps.html.

See you on November 2.

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Trisha Hasch, MUP
Downtown Revitalization Planner
Raleigh, NC

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