Friday, August 11, 2017

Ohio Capitol Does the Unthinkable

Columbus Ohio doesn't have a rail system and they aren't building 8 parking structures. Instead they are buying bus passes for 43,000 workers. 

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  • Office rents tumble, vacancies up, business blame insufficient parking, sound familiar?
  • Building parking structures is cost prohibitive and futile
  • Developers, property owners, employers, and cities subsidize actual parking costs
  • Parking Requirements tie cars to job access
  • Building owners pay for Free-Pass instead of Parking Requirements
  • Pilot Free-Pass program doubled ridership, frees- up parking
  • Laguna Beach Live/Work take note 
-LS



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