Patch Barracks officials look for ways to provide parking

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A free parking space is hard to find at Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, with row after row usually full. Garrison officials have looked at some new ways to add spaces in 2009 to the compact and heavily congested post, which also plays host to U.S. European Command.


Patch Barracks officials look for ways to provide parking
By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, December 29, 2008

STUTTGART, Germany — From workers heading into the office at U.S. European Command headquarters to commissary shoppers and schoolteachers, a glut of traffic pours through the gates at Patch Barracks each morning — up to 2,000 cars a day.

But with only 750 spaces, the search for a parking spot often results in an infuriating quest involving repeated laps around post.

There’s nothing new about that, but garrison officials are hoping to introduce some new measures to help ease the squeeze in 2009.

"It is a quality of life issue and it is tremendously frustrating," said Col. Richard M. Pastore, commander of the U.S. Army Garrison, Stuttgart. "We’re attacking it from every angle. It’s a full-court press."

The first step will be to restructure Patch’s Washington Square, which will create about 80 new spaces, Pastore said. Another plan is in the works to add 100 streetside parking slots nearby.


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