Makes sense but believe me, my narrow little experience had nothing to do with residential parking woes. This was a major intersection with all big businesses along the street. I never got to the parking garage of the mall I was at but could see the escalators going to it and it had to be substantial. The businesses there, which the parking spaces I got towed from would've serviced, could easily have done without that on-street parking.
There's one thing that cities tend to forget by catering too much to the public's outcry for large amounts of downtown parking. It's that it takes away from the ridership on mass transit when parking's too easy, cheap, and available. Government's answer should be "We'd love to provide you with more parking downtown but instead we'll increase the amount of service on our buses or subways." People will grumble but eventually they'll conform.
Look at the huge and dense cities back east. Most sane people have given up their cars and the hassle of parking and have bitten the bullet of mass transportation. Eventually LA and western cities will see the light. They're on their way but it'll take years of changing public perceptions.
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- Death to West Hollywood
- West Hollywood is already dead.
- SoCal has hundreds of miles of streets (maybe thousands?) where parking becomes traffic at certain times.
- What was the time on the ticket? (n/t)
- Sad.
- similar experience in Atlanta
- Go get em!