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>'ParkModo was recently offering $13 an hour to drivers who would occupy parking spaces in the Mission District during peak weekend times and then sell the spot
by incision 12y ago
>'ParkModo was recently offering $13 an hour to drivers who would occupy parking spaces in the Mission District during peak weekend times and then sell the spot through its app, a Craigslist job posting showed.'
Wow, I remember when parking spot squatting was the province of bold homeless men near nightclubs.
This sort of rent-seeking on the commons is particularly distasteful, but simply 'cracking down' on it seems like a wasted opportunity.
If the demand and divide are such that this is a real issue it seems like time for a progressive congestion tax or similar. Collect and invest in infrastructure.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoSF already has the nation's most advanced parking space pricing system, called SFPark. However, that is a low bar. The prices change very slowly and some neighborhoods still have not found their equilibrium price (for example, a busy stretch of Valencia has had its price increased in every adjustment round and is now up to $6/hr. Nobody knows the equilibrium price for that area.) There's also the problem that SFPark isn't very widespread because "local merchants" who are a kind of caveman often oppose it.
- hkmurakami 12y agoA generous interpretation of their intent would be that they were trying to inflate their transaction volume in order to create a better user experience for the early adopters trying out their app (a challenge that every e-commerce / marketplace business faces in its early stage). Still doesn't absolve them of the distasteful nature of their actions, of course.