IDEA Series - Breaking the CoK out of the Parking Trap
Our City has plans. So many plans, lots of plans! Sustainability Plans, Transportation Plans, Neighbourhood Plans. And they all suggest that our population at large should be moving away from long distance, single occupant vehicle trips and move instead to transit, car pooling, ride shares, biking, walking.... Contradictorily, City Staff and Council are provided with free parking as part of their employment - and reciprocally staff must pay for a transit pass. So they have to pay to do the thing our plans say we want, and they get the thing for free we say in our plans we don't want. This is something the union is going to fight to keep, and that many staff like, so how could we find traction in changing this paradigm? Providing free parking, while charging for alternative transportation is certainly not in line with the intents of the Cities plants - providing incentives directly contradicting the plans the very same staff produced and enforce and the very same council voted to ad