Park Once in St. Pete encourages visitors to use parking garages
St. Pete is launching a six-month pilot program Friday that allows downtown partygoers or sightseers to park in one of two parking garages and then use a shuttle to get from place to place. The idea is to reduce parking congestion along St. Pete streets on weekends when visitors often have to park blocks away from their destination. The program is called Park Once and will run Friday and Saturday nights between 5 and 6 p.m. Users can park in…