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Show PARKING STILL IS PROBLE3I IN BIG CITIES One of the big headaches of cities throughout the country is the providing of parking space for motorists, it was revealed this week in a canvass of municipal traffic departments by Business Week magazine. To ease the parking situation, cities have created one-way streets, rotary traffic circles, installed parking meters, set up time restrictions re-strictions and even banned parking park-ing entirely. But the problem still persists, many of them reported. As municipal forces continued giving giv-ing attention to the provision of adequate space. Experts generally conceded that some form of off-street storage is the only solution to the problem. In the past, there has been a lack of such facilities because of high land costs, the opposition of merchants mer-chants anc laws prohibiting cities from going into the garage business. busi-ness. Now, with the cooperation of business interests and state legislatures, legis-latures, cities are working to eliminate elim-inate these obstacles. More than 200 communities now own and operate op-erate congested-area parking lots paid for by long-term assessments upon benefited property. |