A strike by Pittsburgh area parking lot employees in August, 1972, closed all but about 1,800 of the 25,400 downtown parking places. With 900 fringe parking lots also closed, fewer than 20% of the area's total parking capacity was available. The report investigates the impact of the parking strike on commuter travel and transit usage. It examines the strike effects on retail business sales, entertainment patronage decline and job absenteeism. Plans for local stores to encourage transit use by offering free transit trips to shoppers, attitudes of businessmen toward transit, and editorial reaction by the local press are described. Changes in the operations of bus and trolley service are discussed for the periods before, during, and after the strike.
The Pittsburgh Parking Strike
1972
17 pages
Report
No indication
English
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