[nightstreak]

BlogTO article today:
Toronto built a multimillion dollar parking garage and nobody is using it

Should've stopped reading after "BlogTO"

Summary: St. Lawrence Market's north is "one of TPA's least-used parking lots." yet it sits at about the middle of this table compiled by Matt Elliot:

At 22% average occupancy, that's far from "the least used" with numbers as low as 3% occupancy in other garages. It's also brand new so familiarity is still building.

Having a garage with regular availability is not a problem, it's desirable. If the city wanted to fix this "problem", then simply get rid of all on-street parking on the Esplanade and widen the sidewalks. The far more numerous pedestrians will appreciate that very much and drivers can still find parking in the new garage.

 

[Tuscani01]

Should've stopped reading after "BlogTO"

Summary: St. Lawrence Market's north is "one of TPA's least-used parking lots." yet it sits at about the middle of this table compiled by Matt Elliot:

At 22% average occupancy, that's far from "the least used" with numbers as low as 3% occupancy in other garages. It's also brand new so familiarity is still building.

Having a garage with regular availability is not a problem, it's desirable. If the city wanted to fix this "problem", then simply get rid of all on-street parking on the Esplanade and widen the sidewalks. The far more numerous pedestrians will appreciate that very much and drivers can still find parking in the new garage.

That list only shows the least used lots. There are far more than 21 lots across the city, so being in the middle of the bottom 20 doesn't make things any better.

 

[Northern Light]

That list only shows the least used lots. There are far more than 21 lots across the city, so being in the middle of the bottom 20 doesn't make things any better.

It's somewhere around the mid 20s out of all the lots, thus far.

Here's the Excel file if you want to muck around.

https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/dataset/6126cc9a-3c15-4cf8-baa5-c8a17d3ecae2/resource/23a0c882-26b0-428e-a6b7-3a3a259c796b/download/Parking%20Occupancy.csv

 

[nightstreak]

That list only shows the least used lots. There are far more than 21 lots across the city, so being in the middle of the bottom 20 doesn't make things any better.

I can make a list of “least used lots” make any lot look bad by simply cutting off wherever is convenient to include it. 22% is not the same as 3%. Many more lots have an average occupancy around the 20’s.

 

[Northern Light]

I can make a list of “least used lots” make any lot look bad by simply cutting off wherever is convenient to include it. 22% is not the same as 3%. Most lots have an average occupancy around the 20’s.

I count 18 lots that have daily occupancy below 20%

I count 32 lots that have daily occupancy between 20-29%

I count 57 lots that have daily occupancy between 30-39%

I count 68 lots that have daily occupancy between 40-49%

I count 58 lots that have daily occupancy between 50-59%

I count 69 lots that have daily occupancy between 60-69%

I count 76 lots that have daily occupancy between 70-79%

I count 48 lots that have daily occupancy between 80-89%

I count 21 lots that have daily occupancy between 90-99%

I count 26 lots that have daily occupancy at or above 100% (meaning spaces turning over)

***

a majority of lots have occupancy at or above 60%

* numbers could be off by 1 or 2 for each, I did a quick count from the file linked above after sorting the occupancy rates from smallest to highest.

 

[innsertnamehere]

this lot never made a tonne of sense to me given the proximity of the Church St garage and a lot of commercial parking in the area already on top of that.. but what's done is done. As others have said, there is clearly an opportunity to remove on-street parking in the area and improve the public realm.