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The high cost of free parking

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The high cost of free parking

A Vox explainer on how mandatory parking minimums and free parking impose hidden costs on cities. It draws on Donald Shoup's work and gives the history of parking requirements.

HN links it as a concise explanation of why free parking is not really free and how parking rules shape cities.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2017–2018

Topics

  • Transit, cities & urban planning
  • Microeconomics & behavioral economics

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