spending on Medicare
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Estimates of the annual capital and operating costs of "free" parking have ranged
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Annual projection for Twin Cities area: over $1 billion

A dozen years ago, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies estimated the annual costs of parking in the Twin Cities region at $1.1 billion
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Of course, all our cars wouldn’t be worth much if we
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In these cases, passenger fares pay for at least part of all three elements. For motorists, the cost equation is much more complex. Drivers pay the full price of private vehicles, about half the costs of right of way (according to a recent Pew SubsidyScope report) and next to nothing
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Economists tell us this price imbalance leads to inefficiency, inequity and the environmental ravages of unchecked car culture. For example, if your employer lets you
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Subsidies make a difference

Research over more than two decades in seven urban areas showed that 60 percent more employees drive solo to work if the employer
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Shoup also
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"Because motorists pay nothing for parking, they own
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Little
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The invisible subsidy for parking was
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But eventually, once
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Conrad deFiebre is a fellow at Minnesota 2020, a nonpartisan, progressive think tank based in St. Paul. He spent 34 years as an editor and reporter at the Star Tribune, the
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First, the
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In Japan, parking is scarce and expensive,
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I know a family who spent
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