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118. Parking Is Hell

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Parking - The Most Boring Part of Car Ownership

Michael manville is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at cornel university. His research inspired the city of san francisco to try an experiment called s f park. They have censors on the grund to measure the occupancy of each of seven thousand spaces, usually about eight spaces on each block. On blocks where they find a high occupancy, if they're all full, they nudge up the price. And on blocks fere there's a lot of empty spaces, they dudge the prices down.

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