Re: privatize parking spaces - market failure?

2002-02-19 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Gustavo Lacerda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you suggesting a system that is sensitive to the market conditions at the exact moment in time (i.e. dynamically priced)? Yes. but such a system would be hard to implement. The technology already exists. Can you think of an existing

Re: privatize parking spaces - market failure?

2002-02-19 Thread James Haney
I've been sitting back on this, but now I have to enter the debate... A fully floating tariff for parking meters that is entirely based on reducing congestion may be efficient, but it is a false efficiency. People want to have a general idea when they get in their car to go somewhere as to how