4. The parking nightmare
Despite the excellent transit system, Dallas is still very much a driving city, and the inability to find decent parking in downtown is consistently touted as a reason residents don’t visit more. The DIA says it isn’t about a lack of parking, but rather an inability to actually find where to park.
“Studies have shown that there absolutely is enough parking, but people come downtown, they don’t know where parking is and they’re circling the same block six times trying to find a parking space,” Sanders says. Not only is this detrimental to the citizen experience, but the aggregate pollution from cars just circling around the area hoping to snag a spot has a significant carbon footprint.
“If we can create smart parking that would allow people to locate the best parking lot or parking space ahead of time and know exactly where they’re going, it helps on a lot of fronts.”
Despite the excellent transit system, Dallas is still very much a driving city, and the inability to find decent parking in downtown is consistently touted as a reason residents don’t visit more. The DIA says it isn’t about a lack of parking, but rather an inability to actually find where to park.
“Studies have shown that there absolutely is enough parking, but people come downtown, they don’t know where parking is and they’re circling the same block six times trying to find a parking space,” Sanders says. Not only is this detrimental to the citizen experience, but the aggregate pollution from cars just circling around the area hoping to snag a spot has a significant carbon footprint.
“If we can create smart parking that would allow people to locate the best parking lot or parking space ahead of time and know exactly where they’re going, it helps on a lot of fronts.”
