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2008-05-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

How Free Parking Feeds Global Warming, and Other Bad Things

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Posted by Bobby 2008-05-13 10:34|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 How about a mandatory roof on all open air parking. The roof can have either solar panels or some kind of plants to suck up the carbon and make the city oh so beautiful on those satellite photos.

Or maybe a group could buy the parking lot and do what they want with them instead of telling others, or fighting others plans at every turn.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-13 11:13|| 2008-05-13 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Novel idea. That could just work.
The investment of capital driving innovative solutions to today's problems. And because it is based on the private investment of capital, we'll call it Capitalism.

Posted by Thinerong Pelosi7252 2008-05-13 12:43|| 2008-05-13 12:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Many of these ideas are based on the assumption that everyone lives in high density populations. Most are not economically sound. Even mass transit requires "mass" population to work.

Posted by tipover 2008-05-13 13:20|| 2008-05-13 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 "Or maybe a group could buy the parking lot and do what they want with them instead of telling others, or fighting others plans at every turn."

thats done in the densest city centers. Issues - 1 in many suburban areas, off street parking is mandated by zoning for developments of any size 2. favorable tax treatment - employer provided free parking is a perk thats not taxed as income, so its a preffered way to attract employees.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-13 14:15|| 2008-05-13 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 If off street parking was not provided free, mass transit relative economics would gain, esp in smaller downtowns, and denser suburban areas.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-13 14:16|| 2008-05-13 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 So-o-o IOW, FASCIST AMERIKA - you know, the COMMIE USSA - needs MILYUHNS AND ZILYUHNS OF STATE SUBSIDIZED SOVIET APARTMENT HOUSING AS PER COMMPLAN, GOSPLAN, + NOW USPLAN, to empower the rise of OWG MEGACITIES = GLOBAL COLLECTIVES, AS SUPPOR BY OWG TRANSNATION/CONTINENT FREE TRADE ZONES???

HMMMMMMM, AGRI-ZONES, INFO ZONES, LIVING ZONE, CONSUMER ZONE, etal.???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-13 17:57|| 2008-05-13 17:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Sub-IOW, the US-World will be "FORCED" TO DEV GEORGE JETSON'S FLYING CAR + RELATED???

D *** NG IT, SUPPORT DOC BROWN + YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD LOCAL MAD/FRANKEN-SCIENTIST BUREAU!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-13 18:01|| 2008-05-13 18:01|| Front Page Top

#8 LH: If off street parking was not provided free, mass transit relative economics would gain, esp in smaller downtowns, and denser suburban areas.

My feeling is that a lot of people would simply move to a place where they can affordably park their cars. The smaller downtowns and denser suburban areas you mention would simply become less attractive to potential homeowners. I wonder what the impact would be on places like Detroit, Gary and Camden. Would charging residents for parking increase their attractiveness as cities?

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-05-13 20:25|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-05-13 20:25|| Front Page Top

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