Paid parking has always been controversial, but experts argue it's an absolute necessity
Nobody enjoys feeding the meter or getting a ticket when they've overstayed, but experts argue city CBDs and shopping districts would be much worse places without paid parking.
Amsterdam parking spot goes on the market for €495,000
Parking space seems to be just as scarce and in high demand as affordable housing in Amsterdam. A garage parking spot in the Dutch capital was listed for sale on real estate platform Funda for a staggering 495,000 euros. It can also be rented for 750 euros per month, instead.
If offered the choice between paid and free parking, many people would probably choose the latter. But free parking may be creating more problems than it’s worth.
Let Us Debate the Latest Controversy over Ski Resort Parking
Beloved for its renegade reputation, Colorado ski area Arapahoe Basin will charge skiers to park next season. Two A-Basin fans debate the decision—and discuss why paid parking represents a dividing line between mega resorts and local ski hills.
Tempe might not be trying to put the genie back in the bottle over reduced parking minimums at new downtown high-rise residences in its dense urban core, but it wasn’t quite ready to go to the extreme the developer of a project at College Avenue and Seventh Street had sought, either.
Adjacent municipalities can agree to pave paradise, put up a parking lot. But what are the spaces worth? - American Dirt.
Municipal governance offers the closest most constituents will ever get to direct democracy. Yet it amazingly falls short of achieving what I believe most people would agree is its full potential: to offer a precise reflection of the regulatory environment that constituents seek from the government, and the public services that this government delivers within
The West’s once wide-open spaces are rapidly disappearing, paved into oblivion. If mountain towns are not to be destroyed by population pressures and fossilized planning, they must become innovative laboratories
Parking not included: The effect of paid residential parking on housing prices and its relationship with public transport proximity
Under-priced street parking is widely considered to be a great urban policy failure and is partly what motivated Stockholm to expand its parking zones…