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flamehead2k1 t1_j5h5a75 wrote

Reply to comment by Fattom23 in why doesn't the PPA give a shit? by getnakedivegotaplan

PPA isn't designed to do this. Expanding to just do corner coverage isn't viable. It dramatically increases the coverage area but barely increases revenue.

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Fattom23 t1_j5h5z8p wrote

Which brings us back to why "just opt in to PPA coverage" is totally inadequate as a response to why PPD isn't helping with this.

PPA opt-in is still insane for other reasons, though. The "voters" that you're trying to convince have probably noticed that instead of paying for a permit, they can have a reserved space for the low price of a stolen traffic cone and a threat to shoot someone, so their motivation to cooperate is low. But that's another whole conversation.

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flamehead2k1 t1_j5h86or wrote

If you flipped it to opt out. Most areas would still opt out.

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Fattom23 t1_j5h8ww8 wrote

I don't know. The power of inertia is extremely strong. However, the people who want the PPA out (because they want to put their cars wherever) would be very motivated. I'm fairly certain there would be at least one incident of violence or threats of violence over it (trying to get signatures that way).

People are weird about their cars and where they're going to put them. We can't just let people park wherever; the city would soon be covered with so many abandoned/unneeded cars that there wouldn't be room for anything else. That's why city leadership needs to make the unpopular calls on it (that's why we have governments). Unfortunately, we have the government we have, so they just say we can have a solution if we can convince 51% of our neighbors to agree. That way, no one at Council ever needs to make a choice.

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