Clean Break » parking http://www.cleanbreak.ca Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How the hunt for cheap parking contributes to pollution, climate change http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/03/06/how-the-hunt-for-cheap-parking-contributes-to-pollution-climate-change/ http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/03/06/how-the-hunt-for-cheap-parking-contributes-to-pollution-climate-change/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:27:52 +0000 Tyler http://www.cleanbreak.ca/?p=1547 There’s a terrific post over at the blog Grush Hour, written by SkyMeter founder and chief scientist Bern Grush. A friend in Toronto was driving to downtown to visit him, so Grush documented the crazy path this person took while driving around trying to find the cheapest parking — in this case street parking. Multiply this particular example by the hundreds or thousands every day and you begin to see the larger impact on downtown congestion, smog, and a city’s carbon footprint. Grush argues that cheap street parking has got to go. “Underpriced parking carries a small, transient benefit to individuals who happen to be lucky on a particular day, but it carries a large societal detriment to all of us each day, every day,” he writes.

I encourage you to read his full post. Very interesting.

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