January 18, 2025
No Parking
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a story about how government twists and distorts everything, then has to clean up it's own mess, only it inevitably cleans it with more filth.
Apparently a lot of parking lots in downtown Detroit are gouging sports fans during Lions playoff games, charging as much as $1000 to park. Usurious? Sure. Rotten? You bet. But what business is it of the City of Detroit to set pricing for private parking lots?
Those lots exist for a reason. That reason is, in no small part, because the city, like most cities in America which are run by Democrats, is gouging people by having public meters and forcing them to pay to park on the streets, under the threat of being ticketed and perhaps having your car towed. And since most meters are time limited (often to two hours) a person cannot go to a pro football game and park at a meter; it will expire before he gets out to feed it (which is often illegal anyway, refeeding the meter).
Basically these Democrat cities found a lucrative stream of revenue by screwing over people going downtown. As a result private parking lots opened to serve the needs of these folks. Those lots would be more lucrative to the owners if developed. A Loft condo complex or office building make a lot more money than some stupid parking lot.
The cities don't even have a clue in that they won't offer free parking in public-owned lots either, or even low-cost parking in public-owned lots.
The end result is a scarcity of parking in most downtowns across the country.
In a sane world a lot charging $1000 would be empty and other, cheaper ones full. But these prices are set by the city too as the article points out.
So the answer the Democrats who run these cities is to crack down on "windfall profits" by lot owners rather thanfix the parking problem through true free market systems or even through direct public planning.
According to the article:
Oh, that's genius! Shut down the few lots actually serving what is obviously a public need because you FEEL it's unfair! Then when these guys go out of business you will cry foul.
There is nothing more stupid than a big city Democrat.
Here is a story about how government twists and distorts everything, then has to clean up it's own mess, only it inevitably cleans it with more filth.
Apparently a lot of parking lots in downtown Detroit are gouging sports fans during Lions playoff games, charging as much as $1000 to park. Usurious? Sure. Rotten? You bet. But what business is it of the City of Detroit to set pricing for private parking lots?
Those lots exist for a reason. That reason is, in no small part, because the city, like most cities in America which are run by Democrats, is gouging people by having public meters and forcing them to pay to park on the streets, under the threat of being ticketed and perhaps having your car towed. And since most meters are time limited (often to two hours) a person cannot go to a pro football game and park at a meter; it will expire before he gets out to feed it (which is often illegal anyway, refeeding the meter).
Basically these Democrat cities found a lucrative stream of revenue by screwing over people going downtown. As a result private parking lots opened to serve the needs of these folks. Those lots would be more lucrative to the owners if developed. A Loft condo complex or office building make a lot more money than some stupid parking lot.
The cities don't even have a clue in that they won't offer free parking in public-owned lots either, or even low-cost parking in public-owned lots.
The end result is a scarcity of parking in most downtowns across the country.
In a sane world a lot charging $1000 would be empty and other, cheaper ones full. But these prices are set by the city too as the article points out.
So the answer the Democrats who run these cities is to crack down on "windfall profits" by lot owners rather thanfix the parking problem through true free market systems or even through direct public planning.
According to the article:
David Bell, director of Buildings for Detroit, called the price gouging "shameful.”
"This is totally ridiculous,” Bell said. "I don’t know of anyone who thinks that paying $900 or $1,000 to park and go see a game is reasonable. If we find any parking lot illegally charging folks to park, we are going to use every tour in our arsenal to let them know this is a bad idea. We are going to shut them down, we are going to ticket them, we are going to haul them in front of a Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, and we’re going to take steps to suspend their license. This is totally unacceptable.”
The owners of the three lots shut down by police have to appear before a judge to see when they will be allowed to reopen.
"This is totally ridiculous,” Bell said. "I don’t know of anyone who thinks that paying $900 or $1,000 to park and go see a game is reasonable. If we find any parking lot illegally charging folks to park, we are going to use every tour in our arsenal to let them know this is a bad idea. We are going to shut them down, we are going to ticket them, we are going to haul them in front of a Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, and we’re going to take steps to suspend their license. This is totally unacceptable.”
The owners of the three lots shut down by police have to appear before a judge to see when they will be allowed to reopen.
Oh, that's genius! Shut down the few lots actually serving what is obviously a public need because you FEEL it's unfair! Then when these guys go out of business you will cry foul.
There is nothing more stupid than a big city Democrat.
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