I completely agree, the best solution is those meters where you put in your license plate number, with 1h free per car per day. The problem is that charging fo

I completely agree, the best solution is those meters where you put in your license plate number, with 1h free per car per day. The problem is that charging for street parking is trickier politically than setting rules for construction. Builders will build apartment blocks with not enough parking spaces, people will buy the apartments because they're cheaper, and then complain that the municipality is extorting them by making them pay to park in the street... It's a lot easier to just fix the problem at the source, even if it's not as fair