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Originally Posted by Claeren
Isn't the advantage here that you can actually get a parking spot each morning?
If you have 8000 people fighting for 1000 parking spots it is pretty basic (and conservative minded) economics to charge what the top 1000 people are willing to pay and then use that revenue elsewhere in the system.
It is actually a bigger waste of tax payer money to NOT charge for parking, as each single free parking spot with more than one customer is literally leaving money on the table. ANY private business would charge for a limited commodity like parking yet you don't want the government to be as financially responsible? I don't get it??
People just don't like change....
Claeren.
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Exactly, in the end, with the limited quantity of parking, in the end exactly the same NUMBER of people will end up parking and riding. Now, it might be a different group of people who are using that parking, but the net effect on transit ridership will be absolutely nothing.