#Parking Lots

[hclib]

Cars, Cars, and More Cars

Zoom into the photo above, from 1967, and you'll see cars parked sometimes eight cars deep, packed into surface parking lots like sardines. (Presumably parking attendants were managing the movement of cars in and out of these lots throughout the day.) Parking and traffic congestion had been a problem in downtown Minneapolis since at least the 1940s and was still a major concern in 1969 when the above report was published. When much of the Gateway was demolished in the late 1950s and early 60s ("urban renewal"!), a lot of land was converted to parking lots. But with more parking spots came even more cars driving downtown. Newly built highways were improving speedy access to downtown and a comprehensive public transit plan, from the newly formed Metropolitan Transit Commission, was still in the works. Cars primarily got people where they were going.

Much of downtown remained a sea of parking lots for decades. Browse over 1,400 photos of parking lots in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Find parking studies from the 1940s to the early 2000s in the Minneapolis History Collection on the 4th floor of Central Library.

#1960s #automobiles #cars #parking lots #traffic #Minneapolis #Minnesota #downtowns #parking

[eternalistic]

“In France, solar just got a huge boost from new legislation approved through the Senate this week that will require all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – to be covered by solar panels.”

“The new provisions are part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s large-scale plan to heavily invest in renewables, which aims to multiply by 10 the amount of solar energy produced in the country, and to double the power from land-based wind farms.”

#solar #solar power #france #parking lots #Renewable Energy #renewable #electricity #solar panels

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

A common raven perched on the bed of a Chevy Silverado

May 23, 2023

#ravens #juneau #parking lots #my photos #fpotd

[shegottosayit]

#seagull #pigeon #seagulls #pigeons #bird #birds #ocean #beach #blue sky #city #sidewalks #parking lots #bird shit #birding #ornithology #poll

[iheartliquor]

#flood #parking lots #colors

[survivingcapitalism]

#parking lots #sim city

[sarahthealoevera]

Wet

#rainymood #liminal aesthetic #parking lots #dark academia

[lionfloss]

by Richard Fraser

#photography #trees #shadows #concrete #parking lots #weird lighting #night #urban landscape #curators on tumblr

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

rain world fans be like: OMG !! MY FAVOURITE REGION IN THE WHOLE GAME !! PARKING LOT !!!

#rain world #parking lot #parking lots

[quasi-normalcy]

I love how completely deadpan the narrator is

#winnipeg #history #parking lots #car culture #capitalism #canada

[sleepingwithmartyr]

#photography #photoblog #edited #liminal photography #empty spaces #liminal #outdoors #photoset #liminal spaces #liminal moods #parking lot #parking lots #empty places #empty parking lots

[mumblelard]

larvikite or i felt nothing

#moonstones #pink blots #parking lots #broken portals #borgs #brazil #i've got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers #inspiring quotes #i've got a good heart but this mouth #i've connected the dots #i've got a broken face #the book of daniel and other false prophets #i like to watch fire turn wood into ashes #larvikite #ley lines #end of messages

[eternalistic]

“The French Senate has approved a bill requiring new and existing lots with more than 80 spaces to be at least half covered with canopies of solar panels that sit over the parking spaces. Assuming the bill comes into effect later this year, parking lots with more than 400 spaces must be compliant by 2026; smaller ones with 80 to 400 spaces will be given until 2028.” “A 2015 study concluded that within California’s cities and other developed areas, there’s sufficient solar development potential to power the state three to five times over.“ “According to a 2021 study Pearce coauthored, installing solar panels over the parking lots of the 3,751 Walmart supercenters spread across the US alone could generate the same amount of electricity to that of around a dozen coal-fired power plants.��

#solar #solar power #solar panels #photovoltaic #france #parking lots #climate #climate crisis #climate change #wired #environment

[jefkphotography]

A parking barrier.

#parking barrier #parking barriers #barrier #barriers #parking #parking lot #parking lots #parking spot #parking spots #metal object #metal objects #photography #photo #photograph #picture #photos #photographs #image

[ultimafangirl]

Is it scarier to park closer to the store and have more cars around you or to be parked further away from the store and be in an empty area

Cause if there's other cars around there's more places for the killer to hide. But if you're in an empty area no one can hear you scream.

#horror #poll #i work at #walmart #these are things i think about heading out to the car at night #night #parking lots #parking #cars

[iheartliquor]

#SKUNK #SKUNKS #I AM FUCKING OBSESSED W THIS FOTO #THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL LOOK AT ITS LIL POSE #parking lots