In parts of Wisconsin, parking garages are called parking ramps. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Parking Garage vs. Parking Ramp”
Grant, suppose I’m giving you directions to my office and I say, look for the parking ramp and leave your car there.
Oh, you can’t leave it on the ramp because it would block the other cars.
Exactly. If somebody said that to me, I’d be, yeah, thinking the very same thing.
But apparently a parking ramp in parts of Wisconsin is a parking garage, what we call a parking garage or a parking structure.
Oh, interesting.
Is it because the floors are at an angle?
I think so.
Okay.
Yeah, no, because it sounds wrong to me.
It sounds wrong to me, too.
Oh, but they get it, and they understand each other, and they’re all good.
They do.
They do.
And that got me to thinking about other terms for parking garages.
I mean, that’s what I say.
But you can also say a parking deck in parts of the world or a parkade.
Or in the U.K., it’s a multi-story car park.
They just say car park, though, right?
Yeah.
