(09-23-2019, 07:59 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(09-23-2019, 12:40 AM)taylortbb Wrote: The Duke/Ontario garage actually regularly has a waiting list for monthly parking passes.
They aren’t charging enough if that is the case. They should be charging enough that the waiting list goes away without reducing quantity demanded so much that the place isn’t near full.
Kitchener Parking has an extremely broken pass pricing model in so many ways. There's one price for all surface lots, and a separate higher price for all garages, regardless of location.
A purely demand-based model would probably have the Charles/Water surface lot be the most expensive parking in DTK. Instead, selling it off for re-development will likely generate angry protest from those that park there because they won't want to spend the extra $30/month that a garage parking spot costs. I'd rather see garages be the cheaper option, so we can say "look at all these empty surface lots, let's re-develop them!" as people take the garage parking.
Also, the market value of parking at the Market or KPL garages is clearly not the same as Duke/Ontario. If there was differential pricing between garages the demand would spread itself out, as some people walk further for cheaper parking.