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And parking is abundant!
by davidw 7mo ago
And parking is abundant!
- amelius 7mo agoIf you have the money for it. https://easypark.rs/news/cheapest-countries-to-park-in/ https://easypark.rs/news/cheapest-countries-to-park-in/
- davidw 7mo agoIn the US, people bend over backwards to ensure that there is free storage for automobiles. And that housing and businesses are forced to include that expensive (parking spots can run into the 10's of thousands of dollars for some kinds of construction) amenity. Fortunately that's starting to change, but it is a big battle. And meanwhile, CO2 levels keep rising. ( This book goes into detail but is quite readable: https://www.henrygrabar.com/paved-paradise https://www.henrygrabar.com/paved-paradise )
- epistasis 7mo agoMore specifically, free for the person parking. All the rest of society pays massive amounts in construction costs: > adding tens of thousands of dollars per housing unit and, in some cases, increasing total construction costs by more than 50%. This is from a recent update to Donald Shoup's estimates from the classic "The high cost of free parking": https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f88x32n https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f88x32n
- wise_young_man 7mo agoAnd in many places makes more than minimum wage.
- throw0101a 7mo agoA few years old now, but still worth checking out: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
- davidw 7mo agoGrabar's book that I linked below is probably more accessible to most people, but Shoup is of course the OG.