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by logicchains 925 days ago
>public infrastructure due to its demented obsession with privatization and profit

It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces. You can bet if there were no zoning laws or mandatory parking space requirements US cities would be a lot more walkable, like Asian cities.

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>It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces.

It is privatization that renders the government only capable of punitive solutions (regressive fees, etc.) rather than constructive ones (public infrastructure upgrades, etc.). Realize the revenue from these fees will be 99% laundered and swallowed up by private contractors. That ink is already dry.

>You can bet if there were no zoning laws or mandatory parking space requirements

Nonsense. This is the demented obsession I described above. You aren't making any sense at all. Working people aren't lobbying for parking space requirements; petty business owners are.