>any time there are measures to make parking inconvenient, you end up with annoying ordinances banning street parking...or "members only" local passes...or mete

>any time there are measures to make parking inconvenient, you end up with annoying ordinances banning street parking...or "members only" local passes...or meter maids who exist to torment us all "annoying ordinances banning street parking", as if street parking isn't itself extremely annoying to pedestrians and cyclists. "free" parking is not free. just like any other scarce good that the government mandates to be "free", someone, somewhere is paying for it.