Comment by stonogo
3 days ago
Nothing's stopping you from charging for street parking. If it's a subsidy, that's a political decision, not an inherent flaw in street parking.
3 days ago
Nothing's stopping you from charging for street parking. If it's a subsidy, that's a political decision, not an inherent flaw in street parking.
Charging for street parking is a good step, but American neighborhoods still don’t have great transit and most people still have cars even if they are living in a house/apartment without parking. We aren’t like Japan where car owners have to prove that they have ample parking for their cars.
I would guess that there are very few houses and apartments without parking in the US.
You would be very wrong, but I live in Seattle so my experience differs from yours. Definitely here in Ballard I’d say 50% of the residents are parking on the street.
(statistically, you are probably right if you are talking about the entire population of America, but we are really only concerned with a few dense cities and parking minimums have been on the out for a couple of decades now)
I believe Stroup showed a long time ago that the best solution is to price parking so that there is an average of one empty parking spot per block.
If the automobile was brand new today, I suspect that it would be a hard sell to convince people that taxpayers should pay to provide free storage for people's private cars.