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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
What other employer in Kanata or Bell's Corners or Nepean charges their employees $75/mo to park? And then doesn't guarantee a parking spot? Any private sector employee would find this kind of charge ridiculously laughable. It's only acceptable because we are government employees and have no other alternative.
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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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Originally Posted by BlackRedGold
This isn't true. Name a federal office in the NCR that has free parking..
I know that there was an out of the core office about 20 years ago that had free parking but due to complaints from other public servants, there was a monthly charge instituted.
Also, those downtown with high parking prices have the best transit options and tons of nearby amenities while somewhere like the DND offices on Carling have poor transit and no nearby amenities.
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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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