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Subsidized in what way? Cities still have to have roads for buses and delivery trucks and the vast majority of road wear comes from semi-trucks so it isn't the roads themselves. Are you saying the visits are subsidized on the basis of the increased traffic costing the city more money than it receives from the tourist dollars spent by the visitors?

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Buses and delivery truck don't need giant parking lots, which can't be used for anything else.

Do you know a lot of major cities with large amounts of free parking?

When city land becomes valuable enough that people in parking lots don't generate more wealth than they would if there wasn't a parking lot, the parking lots get sold and buildings are put there instead.

I wish that were the case but there are minimum parking laws in place in a lot of place that prevents that.

And yes most cities I've been to tend not to charge for parking at night or on the weekends.

Such a bizarre practice. Demand on the weekends is highest and logically the parking fees should be highest, not zero.

I'm not one from whom to take advice on the subject, though. I think roads are for driving and parking on them is perverse and I refuse to live anywhere crowded enough to have a bus system.

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