[Clarkey]

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.

The people that use Prince's Island Park should get charged $3 to go there. I don't use it so why should I pay for the maintenance of it? There's probably max 10,000 people using this park on any given day in March in yet I and 990,000 other Calgarians have to subsidize the minority's use of this park. Not to mention that a lot of the people that use this park work downtown or live in expensive condo's downtown and are wealthy.