New Parking Options Coming to Crockett Street in Downtown Shreveport Crockett Street Parking UpdateThe app-based parking is now live on Crockett Street, bringing added convenience to your downtown Shreveport visits. This area is part of the ParkMobile app parking, the official parking app used throughout downtown. All designated app-parking spaces are marked with green-painted curbs. […]
What are the core functions of Parking Enforcement? Since the first Park-O-Meter hit the streets of Oklahoma City in the 1930s, Parking Enforcement has continued to evolve and adopt new technology. But even after decades of change, the core functions of parking enforcement have remained the same. What are some of the core functions of […]
Continuing from the last “What About Parking” we discussed when and why Shreveport Decided To install parking meters. Let’s continue the discussion. Throughout the article (“Ask Council to Study Park-O-Meters”), Mr. Richardson provided a lot of information about his visit to Oklahoma and his findings. He talks about the various stakeholders that he encountered and […]
The City of Shreveport ordinance states a parking violations occurs when part or all of a vehicle extends beyond the designated parking stall boundary lines. However, ShrevePark Parking offers some flexibility and will only issue a ticket if the vehicle’s tires are on or over the lines, front or back. Patrollers do not issue citations […]
Paid parking (Parking Management) is utilized in the downtowns of most cities our size and larger. Downtowns, also known as Central Business Districts, are densely populated, housing various organizations and their employees within a centrally located part of the city. These organizations are usually tenants in high rise buildings, making it possible to house many […]
We ran across some stories about scammers using parking QR Codes to capture your payment information and steal from your accounts! We haven’t experienced any parking QR Code scams in Shreveport, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen here. With that in mind, we wanted to give you some pointers because any QR code can […]
ShrevePark was recently highlighted as a customer success story by T2 Systems in an article titled “ShrevePark Extends Goodwill to Patrons with New UPsafety® PE Functionality.” The article discusses a new automated system that allows payment plan terms to be directly entered into the system, a feature ShrevePark supported during development. The ShrevePark team volunteered […]
We offer competitive [inexpensive] Permit Parking in some slower parts of Downtown When we launched the Park Mobile App on May 1, 2017, we were trying to figure out the best way to address our outdated parking meters. The Park Mobile App allowed us to provide several new, user-friendly options for the citizens of Shreveport. […]
Several years ago, we had to confront the reality that all the City’s parking meters were out of date. We needed to replace defective meters, meters that were ruined by theft/vandalism and meters ‘taken out’ by accidents. We also needed meters for new spaces we were able to create by converting old Bus Stops and condensing […]
On June 11, 2019, the Shreveport City Council voted to significantly increase the fines for citywide handicapped parking violations. As of Monday, June 24, a first offense ticket jumps to $500 and a second offense ticket to $750. Be aware that these fines are not only for handicapped violations written downtown, they are city-wide AND […]
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