This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published April 03, 2014 and can be found here.
![Rochester faces off against Detroit today in Streetsblog's Parking Madness tourney. [IMAGE: usa.streetsblog.org]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/parking_madness_2014_11.jpg?ref=senseofplace.dev)
It's March madness, PARKING madness, or just plain MADNESS indeed. We've discussed Rochester's parking problem at length here on RocSubway. Now, all of our hard work-- demolishing our city and building parking lots--is paying off. Rochester has worked its way into Streetsblog's nationwide Parking Madness tournament
. Which of these 16 cities has the absolute worst urban parking crater? Readers from around the country will decide.
Take a look at what our downtown has become over the years. From a densely packed and vibrant town square , to the giant parking crater we have today.
Last week we annihilated Miami to earn a spot in the "elite eight." In this latest round Rochester closed a sizable gap against Detroit, and it now looks like we may beat the Motor City. But there are still a few hours left, so vote now
. And tell your buddies... We're #1!
