Put a Price on Street Parking, Generate Billions
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Why does New York charge more to ride the subway than to store a car?
  • azimir ( azimir@lemmy.ml ) 
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    3 months ago

    The other crazy bit: Shouldn’t all of these “the market will solve everything” people be 100% on board with charging for the space? It’s just the city ensuring the most efficient use of the space using market costs?

    Of course, as soon as they have to pay for the resources they’re using they scream bloody murder. The same people are often 100% on board with saying “busses need to be profitable!” … while parking infrastructure needs to be 100% subsidized for their needs.

      • PapaSkwat ( PapaSkwat@lemmy.today ) 
        1·
        3 months ago

        They say things because they think it will get them what they want.

        And sometimes they just say dumb shit and have no clue what they are talking about. My neighbour is a trumper, and holy shit, the ignorant shit she says would blow your mind! lol

    • ascend ( ascend@lemmy.radio ) 
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      3 months ago

      Yeah someone on the local paper website was commenting about how we need to stop the train that connects our city to the bay area because it requires tax money to support the lower fare, but we have tons of roads and parking that cost a ton more

  • utopiah ( utopiah@lemmy.ml ) 
    9·
    3 months ago

    In Belgium, or Brussels at least, you can’t keep a garage empty and park in front. Police can ask you to open it up and if your car can’t fit, you can’t complain if someone else parked in front. It’s legally not your garage with a right of entrance anymore.

    In Tokyo AFAIK you can’t get a license plate without proving you do have a parking spot you own.

    What’s also interesting to remember is that free subsidizing our cities as parking lots sadly heat up for everyone https://www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/cars-dont-just-cause-climate-change-they-make-our-streets-hotter-today

  • jtrek ( jtrek@startrek.website ) 
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    3 months ago

    I’d like to see more spaces converted into like “15 minute loading/unloading”. There’s a lot of double parking that’s just people trying to do something quick.

    I think it was on coney Island avenue the other day that the whole right lane was taken up by people double parking. That’s absurd. Not sure why so many people needed to drive someplace so close to several subways and bus stops, but there’s a lot of ways to discourage that space.