In response to the Island-wide parking crunch, many municipalities have initiated parking studies and have begun to develop master plans to alleviate some of their parking problems.

A $5.5 million parking garage is being built to remedy the parking crunch, Mr. Steiner said.

So far, diplomats have not been especially receptive to many New Yorkers' solution to the parking crunch: public transportation.

It isn't only residents of the neighborhood who are riled by the parking crunch.

When the village, citing a parking crunch, threatened to reject Mr. Lam's plan to offer table service, Mr. Lam collected 40 signatures on a petition.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spoken with the merchant's association about the possibility of building a garage to ease the parking crunch, Mr. Dass said.

Increased enrollment along with new construction and limited expansion options have caused a parking crunch at Montclair State University.

His thoughtful client, no doubt familiar with the parking crunch in downtown Providence, had sent Jersey a RISD visitor's pass for the parking lot just across the street.

Apparently, there is a parking crunch at Montclair State.

The zoning board, public works department, city council and Mayor Len Desiderio have all come up with proposals to ease the parking crunch in the crowded Cape May County resort town.