Permit Parking and Car Sharing |
October 20th, 2012 |
| car_sharing, permit_parking, transport |
In towns with permit parking residents can get permits that allow them
to park in any residential spot in the town. Very convenient. If you
use a car sharing service instead of owning a car, however, permit
parking is off limits [1]. People using these services decrease the
demand for parking in that they increase the residents-to-cars ratio,
so conveniences that apply to owning but not sharing are harmful.
Proposal: towns with permit parking change their laws so that residents who don't own a car may sell their permits to car sharing services. Being able to rent a zipcar with Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston permits would be awesome.
[1] You generally can't use your visitor parking permit on a car that
you've rented. And even if you do, visitor permits are usually zoned
much more tightly than resident permits.
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