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Interesting about the EV parkade, and where in Eau-Claire is the new parkade being built?
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Downtown needs 6,500 new parking stalls downtown in 10 years: parking authority
City has been praised for its restrictive parking policy
By Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald June 17, 2014
General manager Troy McLeod’s 10-year plan for the Calgary Parking Authority includes adding more parking stalls in the downtown and licensing the ParkPlus payment system elsewhere in Canada and abroad to increase revenue for the city.
Photograph by: Stuart Gradon , Calgary Herald
There’s enough motorist demand to nearly double the downtown parking system, but anything more than a modest increase may overload the road network, the city’s parking agency head said Monday.
Calgary Parking Authority’s new 10-year strategic plan says the current 45,000 parking spaces in the core should be augmented by 6,500 over the next decade, general manager Troy McLeod said.
About one-third of that will come from three city parkades, and the rest likely from private developers putting up new towers, McLeod told council Monday.
There’s enough demand for about 80,000 parkade and lot stalls in Calgary’s office epicentre, but the city “can’t meet all that demand” and achieve its goal of a 60/40 split between downtown transit commuting and other modes, McLeod added.
The road capacity into downtown is nearly maxed out, said Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra, a parking authority board member.
“Spatially, we cannot stuff enough cars into it,” he told reporters.
“It’s not just a question of parking down here. It’s about getting them in and out on a daily basis.”
Carra recalled a scuttled 1970s plan for an “east downtown penetrator” highway that would have levelled part of Inglewood, his own community. The city thinks differently now, and urbanists widely praise Calgary for its restrictive parking policy, he said.
However, Mayor Naheed Nenshi and other councillors will propose next week a minor review of the downtown parking policy, although not one that would open the floodgates for more parking space.
The city’s parking agency believes there’s more room to boost the ratio of office space to parking spaces, and the mayor wants the city to rethink the practice of making developers contribute cash to the Calgary Parking Authority instead of building their own spaces.
McLeod’s 10-year plan suggests that parking prices — which are already among the highest in North America — can be kept to minimal increases if the 6,500 off-street spaces are introduced. His agency also wants a greater share of the core’s total parking supply — 20 per cent instead of 14 per cent now — to help better influence prices.
Calgary Parking Authority delivered $31 million to city coffers last year. The agency plans to boost that by $10 million in a decade, partially with greater parking revenues but also through licensing the ParkPlus system to other cities.
Calgary Parking has bid for contracts to share its homegrown payment and enforcement technology in Banff, Saskatoon and Edmonton, which has been testing the machines under the EPark brand in the capital’s downtown since 2013. McLeod’s goal is to spread ParkPlus to at least 10 jurisdictions in Canada and abroad by 2024.
The parking GM also hinted at a “virtual” pay system for visitors during the Stampede, as a greater convenience of the ParkPlus cellphone and smartphone app system.
“You can just scan a QR code or 2-D code,” McLeod explained to reporters.
“That code allows you to access to the ParkPlus system just like a regular ParkPlus account holder and you get the benefit of paying for the time you use.”
The next city parkades are proposed to rise in East Village at 9th Avenue S.E., Eau Claire on 3rd Avenue S.W., and west downtown, where the Roadhouse nightclub sits on 8th Street S.W. CPA will first build the East Village parkade — with office towers and retail space built alongside — to handle visitors to the National Music Centre and future central library.
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I didn't realize Druh was British.
Never sure how serious posts here look.
Well except SAIT. That thing is fucking gorgeous.
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