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Vehicular uncertainty: Can car-sharing help solve Bozeman’s parking conundrum?

As Bozeman urbanizes, leaving its cow-town roots behind to become a bustling hub of higher education, tourism and tech companies, it’s cars that make for some of the city’s trickiest planning conundrums.

For one thing, building new streets and expanding old ones to handle additional traffic is hideously expensive — on the order of $1 million per lane per mile. For another, as the city looks to slow sprawl by permitting more high-density housing in its core, it’s unclear what to do about residents’ cars given the often-prohibitive cost of setting aside prime real estate for parking.

By Eric Dietrich Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/city/vehicular-uncertainty-can-car-sharing-help-solve-bozeman-s-parking/article_2897b64f-61bc-5b23-b597-2121eb4c0005.html

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