Parking in Waterloo Region

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Traffic is certainly a nightmare.  I'd be looking at charging a nominal amount on weekends.  Find out what the threshold is for what people are willing to pay.

This would only work under the assumption that there are people driving to the market that otherwise would be walking or taking the bus there. I do not believe there are such people. Some people might simply not go to the market altogether, which would reduce traffic but damage the viability of the market. So this is cutting your nose to spite your face.

Hi, I'm one of those people, though with biking instead. I'm also in a different category sometimes: those who are dissuaded from going to the market because of how bad the traffic and parking situation is - not in money, but in time. I don't care about $2 or something for parking, but I do care about the uncertainty of whether I can get into the garage at all and how long I'm going to be stuck in traffic in the block around the market.