When I lived in Atlanta, parking was included with rent. In the great tradition of Charge for EVERYTHING, the apartment complexes and flats in Toronto charge as much as $50 per month extra for parking. Downtown parking is $2.00 per half hour or $175 and up per month. If your business has parking included, they could be vampires and they would get waiting lists of people to work there. (We have a laneway with parking, but it is a Chinese puzzle to get in and out of.) And of course there is alternate-side-of-the-street parking in winter, which requires you to go out and move your car at midnight!
I think parking is one of those things that is looked on as a cash cow to The Bureaucrats -it's another thing you must have, and if they control the supply, what are we going to do?
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