On Thursday, November 17^th, 2005, between about 1:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., I (Rick Booth) surveyed the parking situation in the four main parking lots at Cornwells Heights.

On Friday, November 18^th, a fellow commuter pointed out that I had actually forgotten to count a little-known and little-used fifth lot run by SEPTA and situated northeast of the other SEPTA lots, sandwiched as a narrow strip between the tracks and I-95 above Station Avenue on the southbound side of the tracks. Though it contains 92 parking spaces, only about 10 cars park there on most days when the main southbound side SEPTA lot overflows in the morning. Knowing now of this fifth and (probably) final Cornwells Heights parking lot, the overall parking stats stand as follows:

Used Empty Total

PennDOT Lot 1 819 65 884

PennDOT Lot 2 0 656 656

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PennDOT Summary 819 (53%) 721 (47%) 1540

SEPTA Southbound Lot 1 105 3 108

SEPTA Southbound Lot 2 10 82 92

SEPTA Northbound Lot 82 22 104

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SEPTA Summary 197 107 304

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Combined Summary 1016 (55%) 828 (45%) 1844

In addition to these regular parking spots, there were 40 handicapped spaces in PennDOT Lot 1, with 22 free, plus 4 handicapped spots in each of the two main SEPTA lots.

With handicapped spots included, the parking capacity of Cornwells Heights is 1892 cars.

Cornwells Heights appears to have an excess parking capacity of about 800 spaces, representing nearly 45% of its total parking capacity that goes unused on a daily basis.