“Why we should pay more for free parking.” A Guardian video.
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A Hong Kong parking spot measuring 16.4 feet by 8.2 feet sold for US$760,000 on June 4th, according to the South China Morning Post. That’s about US$5,600 per square foot, three times the average price of residential property in Hong Kong. The spot is in a parking bay in the Ultima luxury development (average apartment price: US$12.7 million) where there are only 370 car spaces for 527 units. An Ultima parking space recently rented for US$1,274 per month.
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In 2013, Richard Plantagenet of the House of York, better-known as King Richard III, was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester, England, where he had been since 1485. He was quite dead, so authorities made no attempt to collect 500-years-worth of parking fees.
The scruffy lot, site of Greyfriar’s monastery when Richard III entered long-term parking, was recently declared a national historic site. It’s convenient to the King Richard III Visitor Centre, which notes: “Despite King Richard III being known as the car park king, there is no parking available at the Visitor Centre.” Park at ye olde Holiday Inn or the Highcross Shopping Centre.
More:
“Leicester car park where Richard III was buried given protected status,” Maev Kennedy, The Guardian
“English Car Park Where Remains Of Richard III Were Found Declared A Monument,” Scott Neuman, NPR
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Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain how the cities we live in are shaped by the way we get around them (more here).
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Richard Plantagenet of the House of York, better-known as King Richard III, was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester, England, where he has been since 1485. He was quite dead, so authorities made no attempt to collect 500-years-worth of parking fees.
More:
“Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III,” John F. Burns, New York Times
“Archaeologists unearth Richard III,” Geoffrey Brumfiel, Nature Newsblog
“Verdict issued on skeleton found under parking lot: It’s King Richard III,” Alan Boyle, NBC News
“The Humiliation of Richard III,” Amy Davidson, The New Yorker blog
“Richard Crookback,” Sarah Knight and Mary Ann Lund, Times Literary Supplement
“Richard III Mania: Understanding a Kingly Obsession,” A.R. Williams, National Geographic News
“England Buried King Richard III Under a Parking Lot; Digs Him Up Like ‘Our Bad,’” Caity Weaver, Gawker
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover vehicle made a successful landing on the surface of Mars yesterday and immediately found a parking space. Preliminary data from the rover suggest an abundance of parking places on the surface of the Red Planet. Scientists at California’s Jet Propulsion Lab are already calculating the feasibility of bringing the parking spaces back to Earth and installing them in major metropolitan areas. Savings in parking fines alone would recoup the cost of the Mars mission ten-fold.
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They’re here: camera-equipped street sweepers will be cleaning up for the District of Columbia Government. The digital images will be processed by license-plate-reading software, a concept first applied in Chicago.
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