The High Cost of Free Parking

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The twenty-first century parking problem -- Unnatural selection -- The pseudoscience of planning for parking -- An analogy: Ancient astronomy -- A great planning disaster -- The cost of required parking spaces -- Putting the cost of free parking in perspective -- An allegory: Minimum telephone requirements -- Public parking in lieu of private parking -- Reduce demand rather than increase supply -- Cruising -- The right price for curb parking -- Choosing to cruise -- Buying time at the curb -- Turning small change into big changes -- Taxing foreigners living abroad -- Let prices do the planning -- The ideal source of local public revenue -- Unbundled parking -- Time for a paradigm shift -- Changing the future.
"Free parking isn't really free. In fact, the average parking space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has diffused throughout the economy. When we shop, eat in a restaurant, or see a movie, we pay for parking indirectly because its cost is included in the price of everything from hamburgers to housing. The total subsidy for parking is staggering, about the size of the Medicare or national defense budgets. But free parking has other costs: It distorts transportation choices, warps urban form, and degrades the environment." "This book unravels current parking policies and proposes sensible, fair alternatives that will free us from the high cost of free parking."--Jacket.

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