Re: Fwd: Cheap parking spaces drive up fuel prices
The paper Mr. Tabarrok offered was very interesting and of considerably different charactor than the piece that drew my initial protest. Particularly interesting was the conclusion that the value of all the parking spaces in the U.S. exceeds--by far!--the value of all the cars in the U.S. Holy cats! Predictably, I was put off by the "frightened natives" remark. Perhaps a more culturally sensitive alternative to "planners...behave like frightened natives before a powerful totem" could be "planners...behave like frightened Senators before an 'under god' clause." -jsh --- Alex Tabarrok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.vtpi.org/shoup.pdf __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Fwd: Cheap parking spaces drive up fuel prices
The news article was based on the work of Don Shoup of UCLA who is the leading author on the free parking issue. You can find one of his papers, The Trouble With Minimum Parking Requirements, here http://www.vtpi.org/shoup.pdf this is the abstract Urban planners typically set the minimum parking requirements for every land use to satisfy the peak demand for free parking. As a result, parking is free for 99 percent of automobile trips in the United States. Minimum parking requirements increase the supply and reduce the pricebut not the costof parking. They bundle the cost of parking spaces into the cost of development, and thereby increase the prices of all the goods and services sold at the sites that offer free parking. Cars have many external costs, but the external cost of parking in cities may be greater than all the other external costs combined. To prevent spillover, cities could price on-street parking rather than require off-street parking. Compared with minimum parking requirements, market prices can allocate parking spaces fairly and efficiently. Alex -- Dr. Alexander Tabarrok Vice President and Director of Research The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Cheap parking spaces drive up fuel prices
"Where communities are still being laid out, streets can be narrow, eliminating on-street parking. Olympia plans to build residential streets as skinny as 13 feet in one fast-growing neighborhood - one-third the conventional width and a national record - while Missoula, Eugene and Kirkland have pinched some streets down to 20 or 24 feet." I'd like to see a fire truck get down a 13 foot wide street--especially when somebody's life or home is at stake. Not to mention that many people LIKE on street parking. This piece seems more interested in eliminating parking for a political agenda than increasing economic efficiency by more properly pricing parking spaces: it completely neglects calculate how much space that the author intends to go to plazas and parks will actually go to creating more parking garages. Not that I'm opposed to efficient pricing of parking spaces; however, this author seems more interested in a political agenda than efficiency. It seems like more of an anti-car apology than an argument for a better world. Yours truly, jsh = "...for no one admits that he incurs an obligation to another merely because that other has done him no wrong." -Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Discourse 16. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
Fwd: Cheap parking spaces drive up fuel prices
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