Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor (slightly modified)

 

Conventional parking policy counsels providing enough spots to handle car storage on the 30th busiest hour of the entire year, usually the weekend before Christmas. That means intentionally planning for an oversupply of parking the other 8,730 hours of the year.

from Streetsblog’s Fun Facts About the Sad State of Parking Policy, culled from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy U.S. Parking Policies report [PDF]