Parking Fee

[Hikin_Jim]

A simple rate hike in the tickets would have avoided the necessity to create the whole system to charge for parking...

Bingo. By creating two separate fees, they make it more "palatable" since one large fee leads to sticker shock (although any reasonably intelligent person could add the two fees together to get the real fee).

However with the two fee structure they have to:
1. Build the kiosk.
2. Staff the kiosk.
3. Cause people to wait, potentially risking overheated/stalled cars.

I'm not sure that splitting the fee to reduce sticker shock is really going to save money, particularly if people have a bad experience. If my car overheats, I am pretty much not coming back.

HJ

[neverwashasbeen]

Raising the ticket price would have been the easy fix, but that didn't happen. I heard that the Tram charter (or whatever governs the operation) specifically restricts how funding and disbursement occurs, so in order to fund road and parking improvements, they had to find another source of funding. I wasn't a fan of the parking fee idea, but so far it seems to be a very minor inconvienence.

[63ChevyII]

Does anyone know if the new parking setup changes the possibility of leaving a car there overnight for a Skyline hike?