Free Parking isn't Free

[smammy]

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Free parking costs a fortune - Boing Boing

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[cos]

Kinda-sorta, except we actually haven't seen much objection to the concept of paying for parking (for the most part, I got the sense that people here supported the increase in meter rates, for example), so much as the outright restrictions on a) being able to park for more than an hour, or b) whether out of town people can park at all.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love how he pulls numbers out of his ass and makes other assumptions without any basis in fact. Solid investigative work there. I await with baited breath his next treatise on how the air we breath isn't really free based on the cost of sending air up on the space shuttle and the price of oranges in Oslo.

[alphacygni]

The book is over 700 pages long and teeming with references. I wouldn't judge it based on an amazon capsule summary.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

In fact it seems you can read the whole book online here (PDF) (http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf). I have not read it yet but so far as I understand it is based on a rather extensive University of California Transportation Center (At UC Berkeley) study and surveys of several municipal parking offices.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Also, the air we breathe isn't really free either. If it were, we would not need air quality regulations. Kind of like how water isn't really free in the sense that one must usually devote some amount of their [usually monetary] resources to making sure that CLEAN water is AVAILABLE at the place where people need it.