It’s Tulsa vs. Milwaukee in the Parking Madness Championship!
This is it — the final, epic showdown of Parking Madness. We started with 16 reader-submitted contenders for the title of America’s Worst Parking Crater, and Milwaukee and Tulsa have emerged from three rounds of voting to face off in the championship.
Only one will be immortalized and receive the “Golden Crater,” Streetsblog’s prize for asphalt expanses run amok.
It’s up to you to decide who claims the title, based on the incriminating evidence we’ve compiled below. So let’s get acquainted (or reacquainted, as the case may be) with these two examples of parking devastation:
Downtown Tulsa has been a favorite from the start because of the sheer surface area devoted to parking. Stephen Lassiter of BikeWalkTulsa submitted this photo and told us that “the southern half of downtown is almost entirely surface parking,” as you can see below:
Lassiter also sent along photos showing this part of Tulsa in 1978 versus 2005.















