Donald Shoup, a parking expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said most people in his field think cheating is rampant, using the Capitol in Sacramento — which is often ringed with cars with disabled tags — as an example.
Donald Shoup, a parking expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said San Francisco's plan would provide incentive for using mass transit and discourage those searching for the perfect — and cheap — spot.
And while many are no doubt legitimate placards, parking experts say anecdotal evidence also suggests widespread fraud.
"This could be the Bryant Park of Newark, but nobody uses it," said Mr. Biederman, the urban parks expert who two decades ago transformed that park in Midtown Manhattan from a forbidding drug haven to a jewel-box refuge.
"Why not?" asked Daniel A. Biederman, the urban parks expert who, as executive director of the Bryant Park Corporation, has invited the public to promenade and do-si-do on the one-acre lawn wedged between skyscrapers in Midtown.
"It's been one of the great ideas that the U.S. has nourished here at home and stimulated others to follow," said Bill Eichbaum, a parks expert at the World Wildlife Fund.
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"This is a way for them to goose revenue," said Martin Lewison, a theme park expert and business management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York.
"The sheer numbers in the Chinese economy are staggering," said theme park expert Martin Lewison, a business management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York.
"It's sort of a no-brainer," said Martin Lewison, a theme park expert and business management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York.
"It's kind of an accidental theme park in that it started as a tour and a theme park just kinda happened," said Robert Niles, a theme park expert and editor at ThemeParkInsider.com.
