Parking: There is a way to free up a lot of space. Have employees of downtown business operations use Uber.

By Pepper Parr

June 11, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

Parking – that and traffic congestion – the two are joined at the hip.

The business organization located in the downtown core have a two-edged sword problem.

UBER: a service that could loosen up a lot of parking spaces.

They need parking spaces for their customers, and they need spaces for their staff who take care of those customers.

There is a simple solution: Give the employees access to the Uber service.  Employees would be reimbursed when they use Uber to get to and from work.  The employee would not have to pay for parking, and by using Uber, they would loosen up parking spaces.

Brian Dean

Craig Kumer

Brian Dean and Craig Kumer think it through – it might work.

It would be a short-term measure and could give the parking gurus time to see if the idea makes a difference.  Cost would be negligible; certainly less than the $300,000 the parking people want to spend on yet another study.