How to Hack Street Parking
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- In this video essay, I make the case that street parking in Halifax and most cities is too cheap to effectively manage spaces and go over how parking benefits districts could set things right.
This video was heavily inspired by Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking, and by the work of the Parking Reform Network: parkingreform.org/
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 There’s no parking shortage
1:29 Why we pay for parking
2:08 Street parking is too cheap
4:16 Parking benefits districts
8:18 Outro
Would a parking benefits district work in your neighbourhood?
This is a good idea. Not charging market-rate for street parking is mismanagement of city resources. It's giving away valuable city land to people who in general are not in need of government assistance, and forgoing city revenue that could go to useful services. It's like if the electric utility only charged 30% of their cost and made tax payers cover the rest. People would be over-using electricity which isn't good and at the expense of everyone else.
Bizarro world is off-street parking being more expensive than on-street parking. On top of limiting the supply of on-street parking, it's unfairly competing with private parkades and businesses. Imagine if the government set up a hot dog store next to Costco and said, "you have hot dogs for $1.50? We're going to sell them for $0.50 and use taxes to cover our losses"
would LOVE to see the funding going into making the streets in my neighbourhood safer for pedestrians.
Yeah, thus would theoretically allow neighbourhoods to expedite traffic calming upgrades by just doing it themselves.
Obviously they would need to clear the concept/design with the city in advance, but no more backlog issues.
The Chicago deal pains me every time I hear it
Don’t know what the parking fuss is about. I live in the Dal campus area and drive my bike and car about equally to get around town (when I’m not walking). I never have a problem finding a parking spot on the peninsula. There are these convenient green signs with a “P” on them that direct you parkades and open air parking throughout the central area. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I don’t agree with auctioning off permitted parking for residents who don’t have driveways/parking spots at their houses. The current residential parking permit system works fine. Currently it’s $75/year. It isn’t fair to make residents compete with wealthy non residents who want a dedicated parking spot downtown - let them buy a spot in a parkade.