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Re:Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s ... by philwelch on Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:29PM (#10244915)
If you don't think people will change their lifestyles given the right conditions, then how did we end up with car-dependent lifestyles in the first place? It's exactly because governments subsidized the right conditions for that to happen by building highways and mandating free parking and tearing down streetcar lines.
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Re:Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s ... by kijin on Sunday September 20, 2015 @12:17AM (#10246540)
The keyword here is "suddenly".

I'm pretty sure we'll be able to get away with fewer parking spaces in the long term, just like we built them guadually over the decades. But if we suddenly start eliminating them, traffic will be hell for the next 10-20 years.

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Re:Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s ... by philwelch on Sunday September 20, 2015 @02:47AM (#10246770)
10-20 years is a bit of an overstatement. People aren't that stupid. The important thing is to have realistic alternatives, i.e. grade-separated transit.
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