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Originally Posted by Bunk
As for the parking policy generally - I think it's worth defending. I don't think it's an "anti-parking agenda". This policy dates back to the 1960s when the city was trying to get its rapid-bus service going (blue arrow) - the precursor to the LRT. Recognizing that an abundance of free parking downtown would not only lead to congestion on finite road capacity, few would take transit unless parking supply was somewhat constrained.
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The problem the parking policy now is that the trains are full. Too little parking and an overloaded transit system could force businesses out of downtown. IMO, we need to increase our transit capacity downtown (and four-car trains are not sufficient for this beyond the short term) or we need to relax the parking policy a bit.