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From KTRK today comes the exciting news that the city will hold classes to teach suburbanites how to park downtown. The main message, apparently, is that if you park a couple of blocks away from your destination rather than trying to park right outside the front door, you'll have a much better chance of finding a parking space. The hell you say! Walk? You gotta be kidding.
The classes are the result of a surge of concern that people don't really know how to park downtown. In car-centric Houston, our first instinct is to try to park as close to wherever we're going as possible, but that doesn't really lend itself to parking in an urban setting. As the Downtown District's Bob Eury rather inexplicably told KTRK:
"If you go to the grocery store, I am almost positive and I know I do," said Bob Eury with the Downtown District. "I will always drive up to the front door. And then I will drive away from the front door to find a place to put my car."
Uh ... yeah. Houstonist isn't sure what all the fuss is about: We rarely have trouble finding a parking place downtown, but we're willing to walk a few blocks. Looks like we won't need to attend those parking classes after all.
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The trick to parking downtown is to check to see what time you are parking then read ALL signs to the left and to the right of where you are parked. Some signs state specifically when you cannot park there, if it's 8pm and the sign says no parking between 9am and 5pm, you're golden... people just have to read ALL the signs around the area they are parked. It amazes me how many folks I hear about getting parking tickets all because they don't read.