Residential Permit Parking is ostensibly to allow residents to find street spaces near home in areas where parking is super competitive. In practice, though, few residents park onstreet during restricted hours and most of the parking goes unused.
It’s a phenomenon very easy to spot near the South Congress commercial strip:
Residential permit parking 1-2 blocks from S Congress. This is waaay underutilized. pic.twitter.com/NzomYZ5an7
— Dan Keshet (@DanKeshet) May 11, 2015
But it happens all over the city, wherever we create resident-only zones. Clay Avenue off Burnet:
@DanKeshet Looking north on Clay Ave just north of Houston. RPP says no parking anytime without permit pic.twitter.com/KYTPaHjgtQ
— Mary Pustejovsky 😷 (@mpusto) January 4, 2015
A few blocks west of that, Montview Avenue, also off Burnet:
On Fortview, near Manchaca. Note how the unused parking starts where the residential zone starts.
On Daniel Drive, one street over from Barton Springs Rd:
Some RPP zones in Mueller (all via Mateo Barnstone):
And near South 1st (again via Mateo Barnstone):
Do you have pictures of street parking going largely unused once designated as residents-only? Tag them with #NoParkingInRPP on twitter or add them to the discussion on the Austin on Your Feet facebook page.