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On which planet is parking ever free?
by EC1 12y ago
On which planet is parking ever free?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoMost neighborhoods; all shopping malls; your driveway; any gas station (for a while). Perhaps you meant 'business district parking'. I always felt it is a huge mistake to have a 'cover charge' for shopping downtown. What is it supposed to do? It certainly discourages customers.
- loumf 12y agoA charge and limited time is meant to keep people who work there from parking all day, so that there is more parking for customers. In my town, the businesses ask for it for this reason.
- graeme 12y agoIf all the parking spaces are full, it most certainly makes sense to charge. Otherwise, people will stay parked there all day, and use is sub-optimal. Most healthy business districts have few available parking spaces, so charges are appropriate. Not-being-able-to-find-a-space-because-they're-all-taken also discourages customers.
- serkanyersen 12y agoI live in Foster City (~30 mins from SF) and parking is free here,