Parking Authority of River City

Whenever I can’t find an open meter in a 1 – 2 block radius and it is raining or I am running late to where I need to park on 6^th, I just sigh. I get it that parking garages serve a need, but this one annoys me. It takes FOREVER to park here. It isn’t terribly wide and each and every turn is super tight and somewhat blind. You can’t zip up a few floors and park. Assuming you are lucky to even get in on the 3^rd. I often find myself circling for 10 minutes and parking up high.
The killer part is the price. 1 hour: $ 3.50, 4+ hours $ 8.75
A meter right next to the parking garage is $ 1/​hour. Sure you have to feed it every 2 hours, but damn that makes a huuuge difference. The all day parking at most of the surrounding ground lots are 5 or 6 bucks and one of them is 7.
We are in Louisville, downtown or not, a city where our prices are almost always so reasonable. 8.75 just doesn’t count as that for me. Ouch.