AMERICANS LOVE PARKING LOTS

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UPI - Purdue University researchers surveyed the total area devoted to
parking in a midsize Midwestern county and found parking spaces
outnumbered resident families 11-to-1. The researchers determined the
county's total parking area to be larger than 1,000 football fields,
covering more than two square miles.

"Even I was surprised by these numbers," said Associate Professor Bryan
Pijanowski, who led the study in Purdue's home county of Tippecanoe. "I
can't help but wonder: Do we need this much parking space?". . .

Pijanowski counted 355,000 parking spaces in Tippecanoe County, which is
home to about 155,000 residents. He noted farmers could produce 250,000
bushels of corn in the same space taken up by parking lots.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007b/070911PijanowskiParking.html

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