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It is an offense to park on the street.
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Lol this is the most unhinged, flat out ignorant Karen shit I have ever heard. Definitely unpopular. Unpopular because it is wrong, but I guess it still works.
Nope, us urbanists are getting pretty tired of entitled people thinking they should get ~~free~~ taxpayer subsidized parking when there isn't enough room for all of the cars. City streets are some of the valuable land available and the city pays to maintain it, clean it, and hold it for private vehicles that do nothing to bring value to the neighborhood.
We saw during COVID how valuable that space could be. More walking space. Sidewalk cafes and outdoor dining. More space for people, not for cars.
If you want parking in a city then you should pay for it yourself. Either buy a home with a garage, pay to put it into a long term garage, or join the revolution of not using a car at all and push for better public transit instead. If my tax dollars should go anywhere, it's towards clean reliable transit instead of parking spaces for private vehicles.
I'm with OP. Public space belongs to the public, not to cars.
By an extension, with all those private cars in the street, buses are stuck with them. It's practically a slowly moving parking lot. Public buses demand publicly available lanes, not occupied by your private vehicles. We tax payers didn't pay the bills just to maintain the roads where you occupy with your private vehicles all day and all night.