Here are the totals from the parking survey I asked our customers to fill out (along with five other local businesses). Also, I have included the results of my parking space count for downtown Glens Falls (12 different occasions testing the perception that space is currently at a premium of any sort).
Merchant's Informal Parking Survey - Glens Falls Central Business District
Average Time to Find a Space: 1.38 minutes
Average Time Spent Downtown: 125 minutes
Did You Park ...
Less than a block away: 93.7%
More than a block away: 6.3%
I counted open (unused) parking spaces less than a block's walk from either the roundabout or the War monument on three separate days, four times each day; 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 4:30pm. Here are the results.
WEDNESDAY 2-18-09
10:30am 206 spaces
12:30pm 175 spaces
2:30pm 198 spaces
4:30pm 331 spaces
FRIDAY 2-20-09
10:30am 163 spaces
12:30pm 128 spaces
2:30pm 129 spaces
4:30pm 163 spaces
SATURDAY 2-21-09
10:30am 295 spaces
12:30pm 256 spaces
2:30pm 262 spaces
4:30pm 282 spaces
There was not a day or time when there was not plenty of parking available in the Central Business District. The minimum number of spaces open was at lunchtime on Friday when (only) 128 spaces were open. The maximum available was 331 spaces at 4:30pm on Wednesday.
What was the problem again?
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"What was the problem again?"
You obviously didn't have a gulp of the kool-aid, Matt.
Incidentally, on Friday, I biked through downtown on my way to work. It was around 10:30, well after most workers would have arrived. I'd say at least 40 percent of the spaces were open.
Bear in mind that this was during the state basketball tournament, on a day that drew over 7,000 people to the Civic Center.
At the last big event at the CC, a sold out River Rats game, my friend had no trouble finding a spot in the City hall parking lot.
If there's no shortage of parking spots at times when the CC is filled, then when can there possibly be more demand for parking then that?
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