While the cost of free parking in New York City is rather huge, it can be offset by what was a seemingly insignificant and irritating innovation.…
Why It’s Tough to Solve Traffic Congestion
While the traffic congestion problem in NYC, LA and D.C. wastes huge time and money, they do not appear to want to solve it.…
Why There is No Such Thing as Free Parking
Even in North Dakota where there is a ban on parking meters along town and city streets, there is no such thing as free parking.…
Why Free Parking Just Got Cheaper
Although better design can lower the cost of free parking, it remains rather expensive because of the tradeoffs it requires.…
Why It’s Tough to Solve Traffic Congestion
First in the nation for gridlock, Washington, D.C. has a #1 award that no one wants. During 2014, D.C.’s average rush hour driver lost 82 hours in congestion. Think 10 years and you’ve use…
Why Free Stuff Can Be Expensive
Whether disappointed because MGM will now charge up to $10 for Las Vegas parking or happy to get free shipping, we know that the cost of free stuff is high.…
The Seven Ways We Pay For Free Parking
Including congestion, wasted gas, time and emissions, cheap parking creates negative externalities that variable pricing of parking spaces can eliminate.…
How Can You Add Value to Your Free Parking Space?
NYC has lots of cheap parking spaces. The result? I (and many like me) have circled blocks, added to greenhouse gases, used precious hours and exacerbated congestion, all to find an empty muni-meter o…
Parking Problems
Parking expert Professor Donald Shoup has identified a traffic problem with implicatons far beyond city streets. Essentially he says that cheap city parking is really rather expensive. Throughout par…