Detroit spends more money issuing parking fines than it collects from them
By Emily Badger
March 19 at 1:57 pm
Detroit has a number of problems with parking, not the least of which is that the city has way too much of the stuff. Spend an afternoon driving through Detroit, and it's immediately clear that there are more parking garages, street meters and surface lots downtown than people who actually want to park there (or destinations that might lure them). This weird imbalance of vacant blocks and excess parking is no accident: The more of the latter the city created over time – often tearing down buildings to make way – the less attractive the downtown became for anyone who drove there, and then actually wanted to walk around. ... "
see link for more. The graphics are pretty graphic, as graphics go.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Back to the orig. story. I suspect that they just drifted into this by doing the same thing year in and year out without tracking the output from this ongoing experiment in government. If they had understood that this was an experiment and kept track of the data they would not have let this go on for so long.
