We are famous for our parking…what I described as “parking prairies” seven years ago. The “Pensacola Parking Syndrome” is a term of the trade used to describe a city that tears down its old buildings to create parking spaces to entice more people downtown, until people no longer want to go there because it has become an empty lot,” according to a January 2012 article in the New York Times. (tip from Maddie Hawkins)
We’ve actually upped the ante in Pensacola and now have parking stations that no one knows when and if they have to feed the meters. Are we charging for parking 24/7, seven days a week? No one knows.
I cleared out a space in my office over the weekend and a parking meter was there this morning. I’ve been feeding it quarters since 7 a.m.