Fresh Ideas

From CityLab, on the high cost of parking:

“Cars cruising for on-street parking in American downtowns account for roughly 1,825 vehicle-miles traveled, for each curb space, every year — two-thirds the length of the country. We know that parking covers an astonishing percentage of urban land area (14 percent in Los Angeles County); that parking inflates the cost of housing and goods because developers fold it into property costs; and that when the city foots the bill for ‘free’ parking, it’s a public subsidy to the affluent — non-car-owning people are gifted no such real estate.”