There are studies that do show the exact opposite effect of your gut-feeling/anecdotal expectation, though. Throw the cars out of the city center, pedestrianize and make it a nice place to be - banish the cars to centralized parking structures at the edge to make parking easy (and keep people from trying to park in the street, it's dumb) - and business turnover actually increases.
... also this reaction is exactly what I was expecting hence my "let's see how this will do". Also: what smug aura? the question is entirely justified, if you'd care to be honest and objective about it. cities are (mostly) designed for cars, not people.
also,question for you guys (actually scratch that, consider this a rhetorical question -.-): why do you feel you're entitled to free use of public space? and no "we're already paying through our car / fuel taxes" doesn't count - those don't cover the actual incurred cost by far.
oh oh, talking about anecdotal: people are idiots! in my home town they increased cost for curbside parking above the rate of the big parking garages and limit public parking to 60min max. people still park there, even if they have meetings that go for 2 hours, then demand a 15 min break during those meetings, to re-feed the meter / get a new ticket. what the actual fuck is wrong with people? I've met people like this multiple times now and now mostly get angry enough with those wasting my time by rather strictly giving htem the choice of either continuing the meeting, or cancelling right then and there. ugh. now i made myself mad.
... also this reaction is exactly what I was expecting hence my "let's see how this will do". Also: what smug aura? the question is entirely justified, if you'd care to be honest and objective about it. cities are (mostly) designed for cars, not people.
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oh oh, talking about anecdotal: people are idiots! in my home town they increased cost for curbside parking above the rate of the big parking garages and limit public parking to 60min max. people still park there, even if they have meetings that go for 2 hours, then demand a 15 min break during those meetings, to re-feed the meter / get a new ticket. what the actual fuck is wrong with people? I've met people like this multiple times now and now mostly get angry enough with those wasting my time by rather strictly giving htem the choice of either continuing the meeting, or cancelling right then and there. ugh. now i made myself mad.