Grace Wheeler’s Reviews > Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World > Status Update

“Parking is a problem of pricing and management more than supply”

- increasing meter prices also dropped the number of citations

- ELIMINATE PARKING MINIMUMS

- by increasing metered street parking prices - the incentive to cruise looking for a street spot drops - people are much more likely to use garage space which in turn frees up more street parking space.

AKA by increasing how much street parking costs, the benefit or service drivers receive is BETTER

- we have enough parking; we just expect parking to be right in front of our location, free, and readily available. Parking is rarely all three.
- Americans hate to walk
- charging a daily parking fee (rather than a monthly pass) decreases people who drive and encourages other forms of transport
- building more parking demands more parking which pushes decentralization