Parking structure downtown necessary
Rather than buying a gift for my dad, I spent a good part of Saturday analyzing all the logical fallacies in this editorial. (Sorry Dad). However, I'm not exactly a logician, so I deleted them and will just give you the gist:It's wrong.
Two days before this editorial ran, the city council told the high school administrators they needed to do more to encourage students to make more responsible transportation choices. Now, inspired by the putative failure of completely baseless parking regulations that ignore basic principles of economics, the city is considering a massive subsidy to encourage people of all ages to drive to downtown, which is about half a mile from the high school.
To briefly engage in my own fallacious ad hominem attack, the best information I have on this subject indicates that Town Crier employees are among the worst offenders at evading local parking regulations, so I guess we shouldn't expect objective analysis.
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How much of that book have you actually read? ;-)
BTW, Donald Shoup is a UCLA urban planning professor. One of the few who has at least a basic understanding of pricing scarce resources like curbside parking. Perhaps NOE will take one of his classes next fall.
The Professor
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