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April 26, 2007

Convention Center Authority raises parking prices

PROVIDENCE -- The Rhode Island Convention Center Authority voted this morning to raise the price of parking at its three downtown lots, part of a trend that is straining the budgets of commuters and visitors to the capital city.

The independent agency voted unanimously to raise the price of 24-hour monthly parking by 11 percent, from $184 to $195. Event parking is going up, too, from $8 to $9. The convention center authority controls 2,515 spaces, about 40 percent of all downtown parking.

The convention center authority chairman, David A. Duffy, attributed the hike to rising expenses. The public lots, he said, are still cheaper than most of the competition.

The authority operates the North and South garages at the convention center, and a surface parking lot at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, which is now closed while the Dunk is being renovated.

-- Journal staff writer Benjamin N. Gedan

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