"While free on-street parking usually stays filled to capacity—if not over capacity—off-street paid parking underperforms."<p>Oh? Friends of ours used to live on T St. NW in Washington, DC, just east of 16th St. We eventually learned to take a cab there. But my recollection is that off-street paid parking just isn't there in that neighborhood. The downtown office areas of Washington have lots of off-street paid parking, but from what I see there are large swaths of town with strips of restaurants and bars surrounded by residential blocks, and with very little in the way of parking garages.<p>We did once pay to park to visit our friends on T. But the lot we parked at was dinky.
Hmmm... I became a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old and I was 26 years old. There are laws in some States against dropping your sick child off at a daycare provider, and that makes sense, but it also meant I had to stay home with her.<p>Because of that I was struggling to make ends meet so every dollar I earned was desperately needed. For the most part "Single Moms" are far more common than single fathers and they generally make less money than men so charging a single parent to park a car will take away a lot more for them than most others. And it will cost low income families more than others.<p>So this sounds like yet another "screw the poor more" idea to me. I'd much rather see a tax on the wealthy to deal with the cost mentioned in this article.