Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
I'm skeptical largely due to the parking. Why pay so much for parking when you can go elsewhere for free? Doesn't make sense.
Here here. It's nice when cities realize that the purpose of parking meters is to prevent people from parking in a spot forever, not to generate revenue.

Birmingham and the Pointes have the right idea - lot parking is plentiful and metered parking is cheap. Royal Oak used to be this way, until they decided to tax people for the privilege of coming to their city and spending money. At least the parking tickets are still reasonable, for now.

I remember reading somewhere that when the Berkley theater went in, they lowered the maximum time on the meters near the theater so people watching movies would run out of time and they could hand out parking tickets easily. Nice.