1. Stores that offer free parking have more customers 2. Stores that have more customers can offer better prices to all their customers (including poor people) due to greater sales volumes
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Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
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#42Fire code make everything more expensive. Why have them?
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#431. Stores that offer free parking have more customers 2. Stores that have more customers can offer better prices to all their customers (including poor people) due to greater sales volumes
I never shop anywhere I can't park at
I only step foot in the mall when I must. I much prefer to walk to the corner grocery store or take the train to a downtown shopping district. I suppose we cancel each other out.
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#46My city just passed a bond measure which includes $36MM for a 300 space parking garage for the high school and city hall, literally meters from where a new light rail stop will be built. 25% of the city's families don't own a car. I have trouble not seeing this as a forced, direct subsidy for the lifestyle of the employees of the city. And this is supposedly one of the most transit-friendly cities around (in the US). But this is an enormous cost, for the benefit of so few... plus it will add 600 trips per day to some of our busiest local roads.
Free parking has all sorts of problems, and when government gets in on the game it only raises more questions, in my mind.
[edited to clarify that the city in question is in the USA]
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#47There was a study a while back that showed that the USA has eight times as many parking spaces as it has cars. At first that seems crazy, but it makes sense if you think about the fact that all the places you go in a day need to have enough parking to meet their peak demand all year, so places like malls have huge empty lots most of the year until Christmas rolls around. And then there is the spot your car is in at w…
Interesting. Now you got me thinking more about what things might change with self-driving cars.
Will cars offer an "orbiting" mode where they keep driving in a circle until you are ready to be picked up.
Will stores offer a driving ring where cars can drive around in circles off the main street in the case where no parking slots are available?
Will cars be able to drop you off, and park themselves when a space becomes available? Will the cars notify you where they parked, or will they always come to your location? (And what if you are standing in an area that is impossible to drive to...where does the car go?)
I can't wait for self-driving cars. This will be a lot of fun to see how the world changes in both the large and small.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Handling cash ain't free. At a minimum, a certain amount must be kept on hand to make change. Then theres insurance on that cash. Then theres the safe (and registers) you have to buy to store the cash. Then theres the transport of the cash to the bank. Also, better hope your cashiers never make a mistake or accept a forged bill.
These aspects also have some advantage - being handled on site means having employees that spend that money locally. All the credit card fees are effectively removed from the local economy.
So you think that companies who only take cash will pay higher wages thus keeping that money locally? I would assume that lower cost would lead to lower prices rather than higher wages.
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#491. Stores that offer free parking have more customers 2. Stores that have more customers can offer better prices to all their customers (including poor people) due to greater sales volumes
Nah dude, that's too much logic for washingtonpost.com
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#501. Stores that offer free parking have more customers 2. Stores that have more customers can offer better prices to all their customers (including poor people) due to greater sales volumes
Stores within walking distance of lots of customers have more customers, but we made that illegal so we could stratify neighborhoods by income.