This is a good idea, and I believe it was championed if not pioneered by the late Donald Shoup.
CTV News: Edmonton to explore sharing parking revenue with city business districts
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/edmonton-to-explore-sharing-parking-revenue-with-city-business-districts/
Fernando Mateo, who has always represented himself more than any actual taxi drivers, wants a "bathroom placard" that would allow taxis to park in "double-parked or truck-loading areas" for up to ten minutes.
Anything to avoid pricing curbside parking spots at a rate that would leave room for taxi drivers to park for ten minutes, I guess.
cc @parkingreform
RIP #DonaldShoup !
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-taxi-drivers-call-for-bathroom-placard-to-relieve-cabbies
I think #DonaldShoup's The High Cost of Free Parking was the first really in-the-weeds policy book I ever read. Aside from the specific lessons about parking, something I took away from it was there's no natural limit to how bad existing policy can be. Which was news to me as a 20-something white dude.
Unfortunately this lesson has felt relevant in every policy landscape I've worked in since.
Lol, the days when I thought well-reasoned arguments would change things.
https://amateurearthling.org/2008/11/03/the-cost-of-parking-at-caltech/
Like Pasadena as a whole, Caltech’s population is growing, but we cannot expand geographically. This means both Caltech and Pasadena must increase density by building vertically or packing our buildings more closely together. Pasadena, much to the dismay of some long time residents who fondly remember the days when Orange Grove Blvd. actually passed through orange … Continue reading The High Cost of Parking at Caltech
RIP #DonaldShoup.
In 2014, I got a chance to give Donald Shoup a copy of the Shoupista valentine's day card that @barnali and I made.
He laughed, and it totally made my week. Here's the card.
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