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Controlling the price and amount of parking is the solution, according to parking prophet and UCLA Professor Donald Shoup.
Jennifer Gennari: People Places: What If We Used Parking Spaces for Something Else? Jennifer Gennari 2011
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Shoup calculates that in 2002 the total subsidy just for off-street parking was between $127 and $374 billion (for comparison, the budget for national defense that year was $349 billion).
Boing Boing 2009
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According to Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, the total subsidy for off-street parking alone was between $127 and $374 billion in 2002.
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BTW Shoup numbers don't come from Seattle at all, but no problem, right?
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Controlling the price and amount of parking is the solution, according to parking prophet and UCLA Professor Donald Shoup.
Jennifer Gennari: People Places: What If We Used Parking Spaces for Something Else? Jennifer Gennari 2011
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We were assigned to Camp Shoup, which was less a camp than a few piles of sand scooped up to form makeshift walls.
In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010
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Colonel Harry Shoup took the first Santa call on Christmas Eve of 1955 from a six-year old boy who began reciting his Christmas list.
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Not long afterward, the idea of apportioning the river by interstate compact was proposed by a rancher and attorney from Greeley, Colorado, who had been fairly steeped in water law for his entire legal career and also had the ear of his close friend, Colorado governor Oliver Shoup.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Shoup studied a 15-block business district in Los Angeles and determined that cruising about 2.5 times around the block for the average of 3.3 minutes required to find a space added up to 950,000 excess miles traveled, 47,000 gallons of gas wasted and 730 tons of carbon dioxide produced in the course of a year.
D.C. tests new parking technology to help drivers find space, pay more easily 2010
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Shoup said the decisions that public and private planners make about providing parking can skew people's travel choices, raise the cost of housing, waste precious space, limit urban design options, harm the environment and damage the economy.
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