Thursday, January 13, 2000
City garages drop hour from $1 rates
BY TANYA ALBERT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Downtown Cincinnati visitors will get an hour less of parking for the dollar they shell out at city-owned garages.
The city changed its rate Wednesday from $1 for the first three hours of parking to $1 for two hours.
But some patrons say they're still getting a good deal on parking compared to the amount privately-owned garages charge.
“I'm usually here two to three hours, and it's cheaper than paying to park in other downtown garages,” said John Neal, of Colerain Township, who parks in the Fountain Square garage when he comes downtown.
“It's the only place I park when I come down here.”
The city now charges $3 for two to three hours of parking in its garages.
The higher prices are an effort to raise more money.
“The next phase is to build new parking spaces downtown,” said Chuck Cullen, Cincinnati's parking superintendent. “In order to do that, you need to raise rates.”
Tax dollars aren't used in the city's parking system, and Cincinnati hasn't opened a new parking garage since 1993, he said.
Earlier this year, Cincinnati raised downtown parking rates at meters and in parking garages for a different reason: To increase turnover during weekday hours because riverfront construction eliminated more than 1,200 parking spots and people coming downtown for short periods of time had a hard time parking.
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