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More rent seeking. Some company convinced cities that pay for parking would make the city money…with a nice cut for the company.
Edit: the parking is already paid for because taxes paid to pave the roads where the parking is. Paid parking is an additional tax with a corporate middleman skimming off the top.
Free parking is a massive subsidy for drivers at the cost of everyone else. Don't go painting "barely nudged this back towards the neutral column" situations into oppression. It's a bad look.
Yes, the companies suck (Chicago selling their parking to a private org that recouped the price they paid in like 3 years is top of this list) but the law bends over backwards to make private transit seem appealing, cause literally no part of it makes a lick of sense, otherwise. It's only treated like this because it's the most profitable transit methods, which is why it got shoved down our collective throats.
Meh, in so many places (in the US) you would need to flatten the entire city and start from the ground up to make no parking and instead here is public transportation that would work. That's the unfortunate world we live in. Or because of how public transportation so often works, you spend the 'poor' tax of so much more time getting places. Oh need to get to work that is five miles away? it's 1 hour each way by public transportation, or 20 minutes by car with traffic.
Actually you don't really have to "flatten" anything, the parking lots are already flat enough. Remove asphalt and build mixed-use housing there. Take away a couple lanes from cars and build a tram line or at least a dedicated bus lane. It's not that difficult if there's political willpower for it.