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Re:App parking system shuts down in San Francisco by joe_the_user on Sunday July 13, 2014 @08:37PM (#8029080)
* SF has a large number of private parking garages. Anyone willing to pay market rate can use them. The city is choosing to charge the rate that it finds most useful.

* The existence of the app in no way demonstrates that the city doesn't charge market rate. The people who "sell" their parking spaces in the app don't have the same cost structure as the city since, among other things, they don't actually own these parking spaces and are simply engaging in a scam.

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Re:App parking system shuts down in San Francisco by ugexe on Sunday July 13, 2014 @08:50PM (#8029106)
Are these factual statements or conjecture? Someone else stated the city is working in charging market rate in some areas, which doesn't mesh with the statement that the city is currently charging what is most useful for them
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Re:App parking system shuts down in San Francisco by joe_the_user on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:30AM (#8040825)
Of course the city is charging what they feel is most useful to them, for whatever reasons they choose. The statement is true virtually by definition.

The city may not be charging you think is most to it, but hey, the city probably isn't concerned with what lone hackers somewhere think, why should it be.

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