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The point of parking meters and tickets is not to make money. It's to keep the roads usable and equitably distribute a finite resource. Looking at parking like
by mcdonje 3y ago
The point of parking meters and tickets is not to make money. It's to keep the roads usable and equitably distribute a finite resource.
Looking at parking like a profit center is perverse, and treating it that way creates perverse incentives.
- vixen99 3y agoNot to make money? Is that true in the US? London UK does just that. In toto, the London Councils (2018-2019) took in more than 700 million pounds and spent around 270 million running the service.
- mcdonje 3y agoYes, they're there to solve a problem not related to government revenue. Some cities use them as a revenue generator and they're examples of the effects of perverse incentives.
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- gok 3y agoDo you think the point of vending machines is to equitably distribute soda?
- mcdonje 3y agoNo. How did you read my comment and think I might think that? This can't be a serious question.
- MockObject 3y agoIt seems like a reasonable inference from a shocking statement. > The point of parking meters and tickets is not to make money. According to whom? Is it equitable because all citizens have the same amount of money?
- mcdonje 3y agoNothing I said is shocking to anyone who is familiar with the subject. That's sensationalist. You took a word I said out of context and asked me something unrelated to my point. That's trolling behavior.
- MockObject 3y agoIt's shocking to consider that any fee system is ever equitable, because people vary drastically in their wealth, and I hope that's not an assertion that requires a citation. An equitable system would involve each citizen receiving an equal number of parking tokens annually.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThis deal did more to reduce street parking than anything the city could've done because it quadrupled the price.