Re:Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s ...
by smaudet on Sunday September 20, 2015 @01:53AM
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Reading through the articles/comments:
1) You can't just 'change parking'. There are already too many variables involved. Articles such as the above are all well and good, but they're pie in the sky, up there with personal space vehicles.
Implementing something like this at the national level is...going to be more than complicated (think, just as bad or worse than healthcare), controversial, and probably not worth it (inefficient and we we trying to get away from centralization anyways).
2) There are some technological solutions...but they are just as difficult, if not more so, than the legal solutions.
So my conclusion is that, for some sort of reform to work, there must be a general 'framework' that is invented, with general solutions, general planned costs, and then this framework must be publicized. That way a larger number of local governments can use these guidelines as a blueprint for reforming/updating their parking regulations.
I'm not saying this would be easy either, but it sounds more attainable than any of the alternatives. I think it would also tackle the problem more efficiently - no painful major overhauls, no expensive long planning/implementation processes, just what people actually want. And can do, given already limited time/money budgets.
1) You can't just 'change parking'. There are already too many variables involved. Articles such as the above are all well and good, but they're pie in the sky, up there with personal space vehicles.
Implementing something like this at the national level is...going to be more than complicated (think, just as bad or worse than healthcare), controversial, and probably not worth it (inefficient and we we trying to get away from centralization anyways).
2) There are some technological solutions...but they are just as difficult, if not more so, than the legal solutions.
So my conclusion is that, for some sort of reform to work, there must be a general 'framework' that is invented, with general solutions, general planned costs, and then this framework must be publicized. That way a larger number of local governments can use these guidelines as a blueprint for reforming/updating their parking regulations.
I'm not saying this would be easy either, but it sounds more attainable than any of the alternatives. I think it would also tackle the problem more efficiently - no painful major overhauls, no expensive long planning/implementation processes, just what people actually want. And can do, given already limited time/money budgets.