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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Yes agreed and the $75 is possibly above the market price but it is well below the supply and demand price. If it was doubled and put towards free transit for some or free parking if you carpool it would even out.
But I agree these arguments are emlematic of the public servant hatred even on this thread let alone outside the Ottawa buble. The normal answer is provide enough parking for everyone when you have a suburban office.
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And they have evidence to move on. Clearly the assumed uptake of transit when the campus was originally planned didn't happen. And OC Transpo is broadly failing further, with little to no forecast improvement. Moodie's opening will only make a marginal dent in transit demand (for the various reasons I have mentioned upthread). If the priors are updated, the plan should be too. They don't need a 1:1 parking provision. But the current 50% is clearly far too low. I would guess they probably should have it in the 60-70% range.
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Originally Posted by YOWetal
I think the parking rate is set on a market rate so if it's surrounded by free on street parking they set the market price at zero. There were such locations at least immediatley pre Covid
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As mentioned above, there are still DND locations which don't charge. And bizarrely some of them are even decently served by transit. It's usually just a question of whether there are enough people working there to make it worthwhile to contract out parking management. So this is basically, mostly about the larger locations (Carling, Coventry, Start Top, LSTL, Montfort Hospital, National Printing Bureau, etc.). If you're at any reserve unit or say Leitrim or Uplands or the former National Defence Medical Centre there's no parking issues.