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We probably shouldn’t provide “free” on-street parking everywhere either. Make car users pay for that choice. [yes I realize that’s a change to 70+ years of ur

• ghaff 2y ago
  The alternatives are not necessarily free to the neighborhood as a whole. A lot of places would have to build a bunch of garages if they were to eliminate any on-street parking. So now you have more garages everywhere. Maybe that's a good tradeoff. Maybe it's not. But I'm familiar with urban neighborhood with on street (mostly permit or metered) parking that have very few garages or parking lots at all.
  • alistairSH 2y ago
    Paid permits and meters are fine - that solves the “stealing all the free spaces” problem mentioned above. The point is a some close to a market solution should be feasible and desirable.
    • ghaff 2y ago
      In the cities I’m familiar with essentially all street parking is metered or resident. There’s a cost for resident parking but it’s typically a lot less than a monthly garage spot would be. When a lot of people talk about “free” parking I think they’re mostly lumping those in. Resident parking spots are certainly an oversubscribed common resource in many areas.