Where communities are still being laid out, streets
can be narrow, eliminating on-street parking. Olympia
plans to build residential streets as skinny as 13
feet in one fast-growing neighborhood - one-third the
conventional width and a national record - while
Missoula, Eugene and Kirkland have pinched some
streets down to 20 or 24 feet.
I'd like to see a fire truck get down a 13 foot wide
street--especially when somebody's life or home is at
stake. Not to mention that many people LIKE on street
parking.
This piece seems more interested in eliminating
parking for a political agenda than increasing
economic efficiency by more properly pricing parking
spaces: it completely neglects calculate how much
space that the author intends to go to plazas and
parks will actually go to creating more parking
garages.
Not that I'm opposed to efficient pricing of parking
spaces; however, this author seems more interested in
a political agenda than efficiency. It seems like
more of an anti-car apology than an argument for a
better world.
Yours truly,
jsh
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...for no one admits that he incurs an obligation to another merely because that
other has done him no wrong.
-Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Discourse 16.
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