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Article: Everyone pays for free parking
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- Antioch Review (IL)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2005
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If Donald Shoup had his way, the only "free parking" you could find would be on a Monopoly board.
He says the notion of free -- or cheap -- parking produces a litany of negative effects on communities.
Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California Los Angeles, blames municipalities that provide free -- or cheap -- parking not only for missed revenue opportunities, but for the far-ranging social effects it causes.
Free or cheap parking, he argues, slows down travel, harms the environment, degrades urban design, raises housing costs, impedes the reuse of older buildings and limits home ownership possibilities.
In his recent book, "The High Cost of Free Parking," ...