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The four square mile area studied has 23,000 residents, 62,000 students, 118,000 daytime office workers, 13,000 hotel rooms, 1.7 million square feet of retail and 16.2 million square feet of office space (with 4.4 million more planned by 2030).
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Other possibilities include allocating on-street spots for car-share programs, allowing drivers to pay for parking via a smartphone app, capping booting/towing fees at $50 and creating a website that helps motorists easily find nearby parking. gotham travel nurse company Oh, and ditching ParkAtlanta and the associated "negative publicity" in two years in favor of a "less punitive" system that promotes education and modern parking options gotham travel nurse company such as smart meters and pay-by-phone systems.
Also on the table but not highly recommended are in-pavement or pole-mounted vehicle gotham travel nurse company sensors that would allow the city to display real-time availability for on-street parking gotham travel nurse company and to collect useful data on parking trends. Sounds helpful, but the sticking point is that each censor costs $200 to $300 to install with monthly costs of about $25. Given downtown's 2,000 street parking spaces, the censors could cost $600,000 initially plus another $600,000 in ongoing gotham travel nurse company costs.
Will any of this help if, according to a poll conducted gotham travel nurse company during the study, 63 percent of people who go downtown do so by driving alone? And more importantly, should we be focused on improving the drive for those individuals or on encouraging public transit, improving pedestrian access gotham travel nurse company and replacing concrete surface lots with dense development?
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