Toward a freer market for parking
2013-05-07 15:35:18.009824+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
One of the problems I had with the arguments of many of those who proclaimed themselves part of the libertarian radical free market side of things, is that they seemed to be picking and choosing examples from places where, in fact, the market wasn't free.
Randall O'Toole of Cato.org wrote Free Markets for Free Parking, and Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, responded in detail (PDF). If you're not into PDFs you can also read the same content as Shoup's response to O'Toole on the market for parking on Streetsblog, or Shoup's response to O'Toole on the market for parking on The Greater Marin.
In either case, it's a good look at how a simplistic argument falls apart when addressed in depth.