by RandallW
It is well known in academic economics that "free parking" is always heavily subsidized (or mandated by pro-car/anti-transit governments), and that if parking were priced by the market, people who park would be billed appropriately; there would be more public transit and Lyft/Taxi/Uber use; and cities would be less congested (some studies have shown that in European cities, more than 50% of driving at certain times of day is people in the vicinity of their destination searching for parking).