I listened to a radio program in which brilliant, if mean-spirited, Harvard economists solved our parking problem. They had figured out that the problem was that people wanted free parking (and there is no such thing as free parking, free lunch or free enterprise). Someone has to pay.
Their solution was to charge sliding fees for parking. the lowest charge that would guarantee that at least one parking spot on each block would always be open. If you wanted your driver to park your limo in the middle of San Francisco’s financial district, you would have to pay a zillion dollars per half-hour. Or, if you were poor, you could park your junker at Ocean Beach for pennies and then walk seven miles to get to the same place.
Actually, that’s the system now used in Frisco, as I like to call it. It has the benefit of neatly dividing the 1% from the rest of us, and what could be more American?
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