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Comment by 0zemp2c | Hacker News Reader

the people against parking minimums live in a fantasy world

what you get is people parking on the sidewalk

what you get is people leaving garbage bins out all week to "protect" their spot

what you get is legit road-rage level violence over people blocking driveways or protecting spots or leaving cars parked too long

people have cars, they need a place to put them, even in fantasyland

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Sounds like something the market can solve. Instead of giving limited parking spaces to whoever got there first, sell them to the highest bidder.

Monthly parking in Manhattan is $1000/month. If you want a car, you gotta pay for the space it takes up. We could be using that space for better things.

People parking on the sidewalk? Great! Tow them and fine them, and now the city has another source of revenue.

I have always thought we should do away with free street parking. It is a valuable resource that should be used for the city to make money or turn into something everyone enjoys. This is a direct impact for the poor (like tolling a road) and will be met with serious resistance. What the OP talks about is what happened in the LA suburbs I lived in (SFV). People even got non-working cars that they pushed around to save spots (you can space the cars out so no one can park and tighten them up so you can park).

Well now, this is an interesting take that you don't see applied to any other resource.

"If this harmful, expensive thing isn't free, a few people will steal it."

"Better make it free forever then, and force all of society to pay for it, whether they use it or not."

but imagine that they weren't forced to own a car and could do everything they need to do without one.

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