 |
| C- OBSERVATIONS The Future of Parking in Broward County The Evolving Version -- as of 19 September 2001 Index Page Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 |
|
| Click HERE to return to the Parking web page for The Center for Creating the Future |
| This is the web-based report about The Future of Parking in Broward County. To obtain the print version of this report with video on CD, please write to creatingthefuture@yahoo.com Click on the key words below to see the report in its "evolving" state: A - Data B - Photos C - Observations D - Recommendations (click here after 1 October 2001) |
 |
| Expectations Everyone thinks “I want to park here” Psychology of the driver There’s no parking in Riverfront (Yes, there is parking across the street in the country garage) No, I don’t like ramps and winding up and up six levels to find a place. (Okay, there are the lower levels of the Library garage and the surface lots on the southwest corner of Andrews and Broward) That’s too far to walk. (Why don’t you try Valet?) That’s too expensive. (What do people expect? Twenty years ago, you could parking in Downtown Fort Lauderdale for an hour for a dime. But there was almost nothing to do downtown. Now there are 23 movie theaters, 12 restaurants in the Riverfront mall, and the guy wants to have front row parking. Yet he’ll walk a half-mile to get to a store in Sawgrass. Expectations…. |
| Return to the Main Page of OBSERVATIONS |