Turning Small Change into Big Changes

Turning Small Change into Big Changes

Kolozsvari, Douglas, and Donald Shoup
Access Magazine 1, no. 23 (2003): 2-7
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351179782

“The money you put into a parking meter seems to vanish into thin air. No one knows where the money goes, and everyone would rather park free, so politicians find it easier to require ample off-street parking than to charge market prices at meters. But if each neighborhood could keep all the parking revenue it generates, a powerful new constituency would emerge—the neighborhoods that receive the revenue. Cities can change the politics of parking if they earmark parking revenue for public improvements in the metered neighborhoods.”

— Douglas Kolozsvari & Donald Shoup