You certainly know the feeling: you're already circling around the block for some minutes, terminally looking for a parking spot and cursing the town, your car, and the folks that were sufficiently lucky to park Well, before getting mad and start a riot, maybe it'd be good to know that compared to other world cities, Toronto's parking does not seem to make it such a frightful place for an automobile owner.
And The Winners Are...
According to the recently released IBM first-ever Worldwide Parking Index, our city fared well, at 3rd place out of 20 countries when it comes to finding a parking slot. 1st place was taken by Chicago (USA), while L. A. (USA) ranked 2nd, and Buenos Aires (Argentina) occupied fourth place. On the other hand, Asian cities failed to prove themselves too favourable; New Delhi (India) was evaluated as the worst city for parking, followed by Bangalore (India) and Beijing (China).
The report considered the usual time expended hunting for a parking slot, whether or not it is even possible to find any, quarrels and fights over the space, and amounts of parking tickets received for illegal parking. While the normal Torontonian needs about 13 minutes to park, the world average seems to be set at twenty minutes, and the most tragic parking story comes from Nairobi, where the average search takes about half an hour and 13 per cent of respondents there claim to have searched for a spot for over an hour.
The study also disclosed that New Delhi drivers are most inclined to have experienced a quarrel over a space, while the opposite side of the spectrum is taken by Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago, where only about 13 percent got into a fight over last year.
What Observations Can Affect
Now, the issue is what the result of such results may be. According to IBM Smarter Cities business frontrunner Jean-Francois Barsoum, city authorities may reevaluate the pricing of parking since too many spots are left free. On the other hand, it may just say the proven fact that Torontonians are pleased with their public transport system and prefer its services to using their cars.
There is also one point worth listening to. Regardless of the overall wonderful results, 45 % of Torontonians have stopped searching for a place at all one or more times in the last year. This is maybe a consequence of rush periods in the town such as vacations. Now, the task for officers is to come up with an idea regarding how to aid such peak traffic periods.
And The Winners Are...
According to the recently released IBM first-ever Worldwide Parking Index, our city fared well, at 3rd place out of 20 countries when it comes to finding a parking slot. 1st place was taken by Chicago (USA), while L. A. (USA) ranked 2nd, and Buenos Aires (Argentina) occupied fourth place. On the other hand, Asian cities failed to prove themselves too favourable; New Delhi (India) was evaluated as the worst city for parking, followed by Bangalore (India) and Beijing (China).
The report considered the usual time expended hunting for a parking slot, whether or not it is even possible to find any, quarrels and fights over the space, and amounts of parking tickets received for illegal parking. While the normal Torontonian needs about 13 minutes to park, the world average seems to be set at twenty minutes, and the most tragic parking story comes from Nairobi, where the average search takes about half an hour and 13 per cent of respondents there claim to have searched for a spot for over an hour.
The study also disclosed that New Delhi drivers are most inclined to have experienced a quarrel over a space, while the opposite side of the spectrum is taken by Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago, where only about 13 percent got into a fight over last year.
What Observations Can Affect
Now, the issue is what the result of such results may be. According to IBM Smarter Cities business frontrunner Jean-Francois Barsoum, city authorities may reevaluate the pricing of parking since too many spots are left free. On the other hand, it may just say the proven fact that Torontonians are pleased with their public transport system and prefer its services to using their cars.
There is also one point worth listening to. Regardless of the overall wonderful results, 45 % of Torontonians have stopped searching for a place at all one or more times in the last year. This is maybe a consequence of rush periods in the town such as vacations. Now, the task for officers is to come up with an idea regarding how to aid such peak traffic periods.
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I Love Toronto is owned by Toronto real-estate professional Heather Hadden of Bosley Real Estate.
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