tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225087846795766487.post1949786959923066958..comments2023-08-12T08:41:01.080+01:00Comments on Green Bristol Blog: Subsidies for car owners?Chris Hutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01532451004057748734noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225087846795766487.post-28019508544125010212008-08-08T09:42:00.000+01:002008-08-08T09:42:00.000+01:00Hi Chris,Great Blog - and too true...Making and ma...Hi Chris,<BR/><BR/>Great Blog - and too true...<BR/><BR/>Making and maintaining the road that car park on costs money. There are where cars are parked could be converted into a wildlife, seating or play area... that allows natural drainage.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what the cost is for pumping and treating the water that runs-off the hard road surface of a parking space.<BR/><BR/>If the market rate for a parking space in say Clifton or Redland is 0, why not ban parking all together! No demand=zero value and people can walk where they please...<BR/><BR/>Access to and from driveways also has a cost.<BR/><BR/>How many people with driveways park across it, rather than on their driveway? And are these people who Stevel claims do not want road parking... really valuing that road space at 0? I think not?<BR/><BR/>Is Stevel really Boris Johnson?<BR/><BR/><BR/>IanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225087846795766487.post-17737924018416009972008-06-27T12:31:00.000+01:002008-06-27T12:31:00.000+01:00Parking places clearly have a market value, althou...Parking places clearly have a market value, although until we allow the market to operate and stop distorting it with subsidies we cannot know what it is. Therefore my figure of £1,000 is just an indication of the likely order. It might be £500 or £2,000, but probably somewhere in between.<BR/><BR/>Once one accepts that the market value is of that order, if the Council then choose to sell those places for as little as £40 per year then it follows that they are massively subsidising car owners.<BR/><BR/>As for driveways, they are also preempting the availability of a parking space so the owners should have to pay the market price for that space in the same way as if they parked in it. Not to charge for driveways is yet another subsidy which will result in a proliferation of paving over front gardens.Chris Hutthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01532451004057748734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225087846795766487.post-39768224008647172152008-06-27T12:04:00.000+01:002008-06-27T12:04:00.000+01:00one more thing; a CPZ will reduce the benefits of ...one more thing; a CPZ will reduce the benefits of having a driveway as you wont be able to park in front of it, not with yellow lines enforced by the council. Though by saving 80+ pounds a year, there are still advantages.SteveLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654931341335136008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225087846795766487.post-33778516212491766172008-06-27T12:03:00.000+01:002008-06-27T12:03:00.000+01:00I'm not sure how you estimate subsidy cost. And it...I'm not sure how you estimate subsidy cost. And its not a subsidy so much as "what is the market value for being able to park near your house during the week"? For a lot of people, the number is 0; they don't care. At the same time, if you look at the cost it takes to turn a garden into a driveway -and the increase in the value of the house- you can assess how much people are already prepared to gain all-day parking for one or more cars.SteveLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654931341335136008noreply@blogger.com