While I quite like the idea of a guaranteed parking space outside my home, I am troubled that local government will extend it’s regulatory tentacles into some aspect of my life that has not hithertoo been regulated. I have visions of officious, payed by comission parking attendants gleefully towing away the vehicles of my hapless neighbors.
Furthermore, I worry that CPZs will spread like a virus. When one neighborhood gets it, adjacent ‘hoods will feel compelled to CPZ, or else face a flood of vagrant parking. Has anybody done a study of the long term impact of CPZ on communities? I suppose the idea is that if we deny drivers the ability to park anywhere other than outside their home, then they will be tempted to leave the car and take a bike or public transport. If that were the idea, then they should come out with it – I might be tempted to support something that radical, however as it stands I fear yet another misguided covert tax.
