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Posted: Tuesday, 01 September 2009 5:39AM
On-Street Parking Reserved For Motorcycles, Scooters
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by KYW's Mike Dunn
The Philadelphia Parking Authority this week launches a new type of on-street parking: 60 spaces in center city are being set aside for motorcycles or scooters.
Officials believe a growing number of commuters coming into center city each day are using motorcycles or scooters to save gas, and increasingly many have been parking on the sidewalks.
To discourage the illegal parking, the parking authority is now launching a pilot program with 60 on-street metered spaces reserved for the smaller vehicles. This is the Authority's Rick Dickson:
"We're going to install spaces on certain streets in center city, particularly the southwest quadrant of center city, where there will be spaces designated for motorcycles and scooters.
Dickson says on block where the spaces are up and running, the authority will begin ticketing motorcycles and scooters that do park on the sidewalks. Until now, they've been looking the other way.
Dickson says as many as four motorcycles or scooters will fit into what is now one space. New meters will be installed to handle multiple vehicles. Dickson says the rates for the motorcycle-only spots will be one half of the rates for auto parking on that block:
"Some of them will be long-term parking for people who are using their scooters for commuting to work, and some of them will be short-term parking for people who are using them to shop."
Dickson stresses that this is a six-month pilot program which could be expanded:
"Once we see how this works, we'll replicate it in other areas of center city."
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The following list of locations of the motorcycle/scooter spaces was supplied by the parking authority.
Some of the installations are not yet complete:
1700 Sansom Street
1800 Sansom Street
1500 Chestnut Street
1700 Chestnut Street
1900 Chestnut Street
1700 Market Street
1900 Market Street
1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard
200 South 17th Street
1600 Chancellor Street
1700 Locust Street
1900 Walnut Street
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