From an economic point of view, one should pay to use a park at 2 am or 2 pm. The rates might be different, but the principle is the same.
Likewise even residential street parking should not be free.
Now this isn’t to say we should extend daytime parking rules and fees to all suburbs and overnight. It’s ridiculous to have a two hour time limit overnight for example. In suburbs there should arguably be no time limit.
And the fees for suburb parking should be way less than CBD parking and off-peak less than on-peak.
In an ideal world, we’ll have a parking app for all of NZ, and wherever we park, we just get charged automatically. It might be $2 while watching a movie from 6 pm to 9 pm, or $0.25c for parking in a suburb. There would also be maximum charges for parking near where you live.
That is some way off, but basically parking charges should follow the normal rules of supply and demand.
If some shops wish to have free parking outside their shops, then they should have the ability to lease the parks off the Council.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
Now this isn’t to say we should extend daytime parking rules and fees to all suburbs and overnight. It’s ridiculous to have a two hour time limit overnight for example. In suburbs there should arguably be no time limit.
And the fees for suburb parking should be way less than CBD parking and off-peak less than on-peak.
In an ideal world, we’ll have a parking app for all of NZ, and wherever we park, we just get charged automatically. It might be $2 while watching a movie from 6 pm to 9 pm, or $0.25c for parking in a suburb. There would also be maximum charges for parking near where you live.
That is some way off, but basically parking charges should follow the normal rules of supply and demand.
If some shops wish to have free parking outside their shops, then they should have the ability to lease the parks off the Council.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
Totally agree and would also encourage cars to be parked withing peoples driveways or garage.
The dangers of cycling use are vastly elevated by the massive rise in parked cars.
So many roads are filled on both sides with cars allowing a single lane this is madness they are primarily a transport route not a parking area.
Don't agree with that at all. Pay to park in the suburbs or overnight - what nonsense!
Who's going to enforce it? 24/7 traffic wardens or installing monitoring cameras EVERYWHERE?
We have a '15 minute city zealot' here it seems, espousing his 'philosophy' on to the rest of us. He must be very popular with a large flock of followers, as he is 'popping up' everywhere spewing forth his wisdom.
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