Top U.S. metros have an over supply of parking spaces

Just because you ate doesn't means we've solved world hunger. Just because it snows doesn't mean global warming isn't happening. Just because you can't find a parking space doesn't mean there aren't enough. In fact, research shows that the top 27 U.S. metro regions are have a nearly 65 percent over supply.

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Some new research reminds us just how oversupplied parking really tends to be in American metro areas: in a word, enormously. Rachel Weinberger and Joshua Karlin-Resnick of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates analyzed parking studies of 27 mixed-use districts across the United States and found "parking was universally oversupplied, in many cases quite significantly." On average across the cases, parking supply exceeded demand by 65 percent.

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