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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Harrisburg mayor proposing outsourcing parking

Patriot News reports that Harrisburg mayor Stephen Reed proposing leasing operations of the city's parking garages and meters to private operators. The deal would fetch $215 million for a 75 agreement. (HT: Grassroots PA)

While the city of Chicago recently contracted out a handful of their parking garages, such lease deals are rare - because there are almost no other government-run parking facilities in other states.

As I have pointed out before, 41 out of 46 government parking "authorities" in the US are located in PA . And the $66 million in expenditures by Pennsylvania's parking authorities in represents 98% of the US total.

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