Supply and Demand

What a crazy notion! If you adjust parking meter fees to be higher when and where demand is higher and lower at non-peak times and locations, then you might make it easier to find parking, reducing congestion (fewer people circling looking for a spot), and generate revenue that could be used to upgrade non-car options, further reducing congestion for those trips that truly require a car. Sounds like a bad idea to me.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/supply-and-demand/44761/