Firstly, well done on innovative thinking and kite-flying random, creative ideas. That is how the world gets improved.
My concern is that street parking spaces are public property, worth as you say, tens of thousands of pounds. Why should a few lucky homeowners get control over them? If I were a homeowner, why would I not just make myself loads of free private parking spaces (ie. basically I get free ownership of government land!)? That is the most likely outcome.
Should they not be exploited so as to maximise everyone's benefit? If they are owned by central government surely the government should maximise the benefit for everyone in the country? and if owned by the local council, maximise the benefit for everyone in the council district?
To take the analogy further, we would not hand control of entire roads to locals, because we all own and pay for them.
Interesting but who actually owns the car-parking spaces. Normally not the residents it’s the public Highways department. In our town they don’t care what residents want, they do as they see fit. Democracy and tax payers influence is dead.
A very London centric topic. You really need to stop designing policies that suit London and nobody else, get out more round the country perhaps and put your brain to use solving real problems.
I like this a lot - inasmuch as parking space is underpriced compared to the market value, and I'd love to see more parklets, more bike sheds, more trees. I guess my concern is status quo bias. In particular the much greater loss aversion from existing parkers than the desire to change things... I guess there's a strong case that you can't legislate for that so you should just leave it to be people to decide/agree/coalesce. But curious if you have a view?
Firstly, well done on innovative thinking and kite-flying random, creative ideas. That is how the world gets improved.
My concern is that street parking spaces are public property, worth as you say, tens of thousands of pounds. Why should a few lucky homeowners get control over them? If I were a homeowner, why would I not just make myself loads of free private parking spaces (ie. basically I get free ownership of government land!)? That is the most likely outcome.
Should they not be exploited so as to maximise everyone's benefit? If they are owned by central government surely the government should maximise the benefit for everyone in the country? and if owned by the local council, maximise the benefit for everyone in the council district?
To take the analogy further, we would not hand control of entire roads to locals, because we all own and pay for them.
Interesting but who actually owns the car-parking spaces. Normally not the residents it’s the public Highways department. In our town they don’t care what residents want, they do as they see fit. Democracy and tax payers influence is dead.
A very London centric topic. You really need to stop designing policies that suit London and nobody else, get out more round the country perhaps and put your brain to use solving real problems.
I like this a lot - inasmuch as parking space is underpriced compared to the market value, and I'd love to see more parklets, more bike sheds, more trees. I guess my concern is status quo bias. In particular the much greater loss aversion from existing parkers than the desire to change things... I guess there's a strong case that you can't legislate for that so you should just leave it to be people to decide/agree/coalesce. But curious if you have a view?