Kelly: Is there a downside? I’m thinking of people trying to find a parking place, for starters.

Horowitz: So we see that in places that have actually eliminated parking minimums, that we see fewer people driving at all and having cars and we see vehicle miles traveled decrease because people can get around via other mechanisms.

Well, now, would you look at that?! If we change the incentives, if we stop incentivizing driving by law, people change their behavior. In this case, they can save a ton of money by not needing a car.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Where I live, the trials take place at the county courthouse, and parking for jurors is at the county parking structure across the street. It’s a typical pay-on-exit system, and jurors get a paid ticket to stick in the machine, so there’s no out-of-pocket cost for parking.

    Yet another way we subsidize and encourage driving…

    • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
      1·
      2 months ago

      and the folks where there isn’t parking plentiful should fuck off? and the fact that this article is about removing parking never even occurred to you?

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialOPEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Uh, what? This article is about housing, with a bit about how removing parking improves people’s lives. So of course it occurred to me that removing parking is a great thing.