We’ve come to assume that there should be available and low-cost space to store our vehicles on city streets. Think about it. Why should it be cheap (or free?). It’s rent for your car! Couldn’t there be much better ways to use space in our cities? Here’s a good explainer video!
Why we should be paying more for parking – video explainer
Charging more for parking could save the environment, ease congestion and inject energy back into the high street. But how? The Guardian’s Peter Walker explains that we’ve been thinking about parking all wrong: it’s not a right, but rather an over-subsidised waste of space
Peter Walker, Josh Toussaint-Strauss, Phil Maynard, Joseph Pierce, Simon Roberts, Paul Boyd and Katie Lamborn
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