[rayiner]

Parking wastes valuable land and creates undesirable and dangerous pedestrian spaces. There should be no parking space requirement. Let the market figure out the right number.

[nerfhammer]

As long as parking spaces are a free public good the market won't figure out the right number

[dllthomas]

Why should they be free?

[nerfhammer]

They shouldn't.

[dllthomas]

Ah. Where there is sufficient density, I fully agree. Where there is not, I'm less confident, but I don't disagree.

[gress]

Make cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.

[wmf]

I don't think a lost decade is what low-income people need right now.

[dllthomas]

I'd interpreted that as about 60% of the point.

[gress]

Exactly - making things harder for people as a way to stimulate the market to cause change just makes the world a nastier place.

[dllthomas]

Sure, but in this case it's "doing less to warp the market in ways that make it easier for particular people". Regardless you've got to think about who will take up the slack and how while things adjust, though.

[gress]

I think we are still tinning about markets in Newtonian terms, where in reality they are relativistic - everything warps the market.

[DougWebb]

Or, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.

[gress]

Indeed, or a haven for people who can use Uber for all transport.