Paying for parking, or, we’re all Shoupistas now | The late Donald Shoup argued for decades that "free parking" isn't, and urban parking is nearly always too cheap
Paying for parking, or, we’re all Shoupistas now | The late Donald Shoup argued for decades that "free parking" isn't, and urban parking is nearly always too cheap
Every so often when reading an obituary of someone, or an awards citation, you realise that you have internalised their work into your thinking without having read it directly. So it was with Donald Shoup, the California transport academic who spent his life working on the problem of urban parking, ...
Donald was featured on episode 98 of The War On Cars podcast, and it's worth a listen.
And the concept of "free parking" during holidays is awful, and I love the idea of still charging for parking on holidays, but using the revenue to help the homeless or other disadvantaged local groups in the community.
I hope the part where it says that some places are starting to price parking "right", have moved the profits local first, because what I've seen in some towns is that they already sold off the parking rights to some company, and the profits of pricing parking "right" will not be invested locally.
In good American fashion of course. I think I learned about that in Last Week Tonight, as well as the fact the private company could file for damages if the city caused them loss of business (for example due to road construction). Absolutely insane but not unexpected.
Yeah Chicago's future was sold by a corrupt mayor