The World's Tightest Parallel Park
A man from New Zealand attempts to regain the world record from China for Tightest Parallel Park. He successfully wins it back by breaking a 32cm gap, and goes even further to make it a 27cm gap.
This Kid is a Parallel Parking Prodigy
He succeeds where so many fail.
Do Not Look to CAA for Validation
If there's anything Hollywood hates, it's paying for stuff it used to get for free. And throughout 2009, CAA has given the industry the biggest FU in entertainment history, charging visitors for parking, all to save just $800,000.
Woman Is Surprisingly Unfazed At Her Own Bad Parking
Parallel parking is hands down one of the most intimidating and potentially humiliating things about driving. This woman might suck at it, but you've gotta give her credit for not caring.
Bloomberg to Make it Easier to Park the Car You Live In Now
What is our billionaire Mayor-for-life up to, today? Oh, he has some great ideas for parking! He will make it so easy to park in New York, if you just give him one more term. Parking will be his legacy.
Happy Park(ing) Day!
If you see a group of people sitting on a patch of artificial turf in the street and you're not sure why they're there or what they're doing, you're probably unaware that today is Park(ing) Day NYC, "an international event that reclaims parking spots and transforms them into engaging, people-friendly public spaces for…
Free Parking
If you're sick of paying for parking—or paying the city for those $105 parking tickets you've been getting—you may want to consider investing in a color printer and a laminating machine. Transportation Alternatives, the advocacy group that promotes bike-riding and mass transit, tested out the city's crackdown on…
New website turns unused parking spaces into cash, and vice versa
GottaPark is the site many a Bay Area resident has wished for: A meeting place where people seeking parking spots can hook up with people who have parking space to rent. What the site needs: A primer on how this would affect my income tax return.
Why Must You Flout Parking Laws, David Yurman?
What journalism should be: a dogged, annoying reporter with a big microphone camped out in front of a fancy building harassing people about fake parking permits. We have to admit, we are suckers for this kinda thing. David Yurman can sell his crappy jewelry for thousands of dollars, but his employees need a fake court…
SF meter maids ticket stolen car 29 times
A San Francisco woman reported her Honda Civic stolen to the San Francisco police. A few weeks later, she got a parking citation in the mail for her stolen car. Then she got another. And another. In total, her car got ticketed 29 times while being listed as stolen. She called the police and the city's Department of…
State To Ban Cab-Hailing, Raise Parking Rates, Make Your Dealer Stop Idling His Escalade
New York state's Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission met yesterday to brainstorm a couple plans to reduce traffic in Manhattan. Among the suggestions: banning taxi hailing, some wacky "no driving on days when your the last number of your license plate matches the date unless it's your golden birthday" plan, that…
Sunnyvale's parking problem
So degraded are parking skills at Yahoo that vigilante employees are contributing to a Flickr photostream, to shame the worst offenders, according to the Wall Street Journal. But, a little sympathy, please. The Sunnyvale headquarters' multilevel parking garage is notoriously difficult to navigate. With some drivers…
