How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for free

Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by wbl on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:35PM (#14068572)

Parking lots can exclude people. It isn't a public good.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by baddox on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:14PM (#14068772)

And in what is probably the first mental association most people have with parking lots, they're also rivalrous.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by saurik on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:45AM (#14070696)

Right. That is, in fact, the point, and why the suggestion to remove regulations and to just let the market regulate parking ends in combat and a bunch of people trying to game theory each other's parking... the result is everyone hates each other and is clearly unfair (if potentially efficient).

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by wbl on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:41AM (#14078419)

Imagine the horrors if we let the market regulate cabinet space in your kitchen.

Once you remove the subsidy people pay to park. What is so unfair about that?

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