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flapjack212 t1_iuxyu5p wrote

you can often pay extra for a reserved spot (i.e. you park in the same spot every day) if this is a particular fear of yours for whatever reason. i have never heard of anyone not being able to find a spot in a parking structure when they are a monthly pass holder

while theoretically possible the garage manager is actively trying to manage the load. i have indeed heard of scenarios where the garage refuses to sell any more monthly spots even though there seemingly is space because they are trying to maintain the ratio of monthly vs daily users

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_iuy8emm wrote

There are garages that do this: they know everyone isn’t there all at once so they sell 5% more than they have capacity for.

Fine print says they don’t guarantee a park. You’re monthly pass is just the right to hunt for a park.

I think in some places this is actually banned now (LA maybe?). They gotta track how many cars enter/leave and not let it go over capacity. Malls can pull this shit around holidays. They let people go in even when full, find there’s no parking and leave having to pay to exit and go to another lot. Holiday surcharge and all.

I suspect for residential parking lots around here overselling isn’t the norm. I feel like we’d see regular threads if that were the case.

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Miringanes t1_iv88jne wrote

My garage takes the total number of spaces, subtracts monthly spaces, reserved and non-reserved and then that’s how many daily cars they’ll allow in.

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XIFOD1M OP t1_iuy0hqf wrote

Radical. Thanks for letting me know!

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