[sustran] Re: contracting out parking to private concessionaires

[Lee Schipper]

In the days after the fall of Communism in Poland, this seemed to happen
everywhere. I remember pulling into my hotel in Katowice in my hosts
car..the parking guy appeared out of nowhere from a mobile home and
tried to charge my friend for setting me down. Lots of other places had
contracted out parking. 


The point of street parking is that the value of the street is usual
MUCH more than is charged per hour for parking. A Swedish study (I think
Jan Owen Jansson) used a hedonic model to see
how much people in Stockholm valued open space, park benches, etc. From
that he concluded that the space for on-street parking was worth far
more per hour that was charged. (We saw this ourselves
in New York City yesterday, on street metered parking near Columbia U
for $0.50/hour, while it was $13 for the first hour in a garage)


Seems to me it is less important whether the street parking is
contracted or not, the main point is to make users pay the real market
value of the land!




Lee Schipper
Director of Research
EMBARQ, the WRI Center
for Sustainable Transport
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>>> "Walter Hook" <whook at itdp.org> 5/18/2007 6:04:15 PM >>>
Does anyone have any information/sources for the possibilities of
contracting out on-street parking to private concessionaires, the
benefits
and risks, etc?

 

Best

Walter 

 

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[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org at list.jca.apc.org] On
Behalf
Of Carlos F. Pardo
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:31 AM
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
Subject: [sustran] English version: Re: Islamic Bicycles for Iranian
Women

 

The English version of the brief summary of that news is in:

http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=07

0517085444.ykmz3ms5
<http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=0

70517085444.ykmz3ms5&cat=null> &cat=null

I guess the complete article is not in English. Pretty interesting!

Best regards,



Carlos F. Pardo



ciclored wrote: 

The article  is  in spanish, maybe somebody can find the english
version...

greetings,

 Carlos Cordero

 

(PD/Agencia EFE).- Irán fabricará "bicicletas islámicas" para las
mujeres,
pensadas para disimular sus formas
<http://blogs.periodistadigital.com/tizas.php/2007/05/14/iran_teheran_vigila

nte_velo_ayatolah_isl_7773>  mediante una cabina que cubriría la mitad
del
cuerpo. 

"Este proyecto permite fomentar el deporte femenino", señaló Elaheh
Sofali,
una de las responsables del proyecto, según informa el diario
gubernamental
del país.

Faezeh Hachémi, hija del ex presidente iraní Akbar Hachémi Rafsandjani,
ex
responsable del deporte olímpico femenino, intentó el desarrollo del
ciclismo entre las mujeres en los años 90, pero está decisión no tuvo
el
éxito deseado por la oposición de los religiosos conservadores.

EL TELÓN DE FONDO O EL VELO DE FONDO

Como cada primavera, la campaña contra la "vestimenta indecorosa" se
está
ensañando con las mujeres, cuyos pañuelos coloridos y cada vez más
escuetos
desafían la imposición del uniforme islámico.

Sólo durante los cuatro primeros días de la campaña, 150.000 personas
fueron
interpeladas en todo el país, de las que 13 pasaron a disposición
judicial,
según informó el jefe de la policía, general Ismael Ahmadi-Moghaddam.

El resto se libraron firmando compromisos de buena conducta que en caso
de
reincidencia se aportarán ante el juez. Desde el arranque de la
campaña, más
de 3.000 mujeres (una media de 150 al día) han sido detenidas y han
pasado
al menos unas horas en comisaría

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From: Sujit Patwardhan <mailto:sujit at vsnl.com>  

To: edelman at greenidea.info ; Global 'South'
<mailto:sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>  Sustainable Transport 

Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:50 PM

Subject: [sustran] Re: Oxygen supplies for India police

 



Like the offer of a "last cigarette" to the man being walked to the
gallows.......

--
Sujit








On 5/17/07, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory <edelman at greenidea.info>
wrote:


*Police stations across the Indian city of Calcutta have been equipped
with oxygen devices to enable police to offset the effects of
pollution

*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6665803.stm 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6665803.stm%20> >

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