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Parking tickets are primarily given to generate revenue for the city, so they have no incentive to make it easier for the user to park.
by joshuaheard 12y ago
Parking tickets are primarily given to generate revenue for the city, so they have no incentive to make it easier for the user to park.
- greggyb 12y agoOr maybe to enforce parking rules that make sense, e.g. keeping all lanes of a busy thoroughfare clear for moving traffic during rush hour; alternate side parking in snowy states to keep the streets drive-able. Edited out snark.
- wtbob 12y ago> Or maybe to enforce parking rules that make sense, Denver recently decided that, since the fine for parking in a tow-away zone is twice that of parking in a street-sweeping zone, and since one can be towed in order to enable street sweeping, then parking in a street-sweeping zone is really parking in a tow-away zone, and doubled the fine. I'm pretty sure that while the parking rules are there to make sense and regulate the commons, their implementation is based on revenue maximisation.
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