This is why you don't park like an asshole. As if the sanitation workers don't have enough to deal with. They tried for 20 minutes and gave up. Now this entire block has trash sitting here until next time.AbsentEmpire t1_j6p8nji wrote
Reply to comment by WhereDaHinkieFlair in This is why you don't park like an asshole. As if the sanitation workers don't have enough to deal with. They tried for 20 minutes and gave up. Now this entire block has trash sitting here until next time. by Adventurous_Key3647
Correct, the solution is less demand for cars overall.
The real solution is not just towing enforcement for illegal parking, which needs to happen anyway, but also setting the price to park to match the level of demand.
As you pointed out above there are not enough parking spots in the city, and building more parking isn't realistically possible, nor would it ever solve the problem.
This means that street parking follows a classic economics problem known as the tragedy of the commons. The solution to which is to apply a price metric that reflects the supply and demand levels. The solution to not enough free street parking to make parking cost more money until the price results in the demand level matching or slightly falling below the level of supply.
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