Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums

Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parkin... by thebooktocome on Sunday September 30, 2018 @04:20PM (#18108170)

Neither of those things are what American conservatives refer to as "market-oriented".

Congestion charges are taxes, and therefore abominable; alternative transport is socialist, ditto.

Since conservatives control the majority of state governments, neither policy can make progress in the current environment.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parkin... by TheCoelacanth on Sunday September 30, 2018 @04:53PM (#18108357)

Subsidizing the use of roads by letting people use them for free after spending a great deal of money on building and maintaining them is not "market-oriented". Charging people to use them is the closest you can get to market-oriented if you are already stuck with the roads. The most market-oriented solution would be not to build public roads in the first place, but it's too late for that.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parkin... by thebooktocome on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:13PM (#18108447)

I suppose we could just demolish all the public roads and start over.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parkin... by TulliusCicero on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:40AM (#18110290)

Urban roads are a natural monopoly, you're not gonna build multiple parallel sets of roads going along each block.

[ Parent | on HN ]