This is why I try to do my shopping online

Some of the responses here suggest that if you just parked a little further out you'd find plenty of parking spaces. That's not how it is here. Heck, the Frye's parking lot will be jam-packed sometimes in the middle of summer, so what hope is there in December?

Has anyone else noticed that while cars have gotten bigger and bigger, parking lots seem to be designed by people (civil engineers lite?) stuck some 1970s time warp? Hundreds of spots made for compacts ... whatever that is.

And the new mall design trend is even crazier. Instead of parking surrounding the mall with a safe walk area inside, they're making them with "streets" so even inside the mall you have to do deal with auto traffic.

In terms of advocacy, I remember there was a CA initiative to mandate that all new facilities have bike parking. I guess this must have failed. Does anyone remember anything about it?