> During the pandemic, Toronto, like many cities, began allowing some on-street parking spaces to be used as patios by local businesses. As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period. In other words, curbside patios produced 49 times more revenue than what would have been earned from parking fees.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/22/torontos-curbside-patios-made-49-times-more-money-than-the-parking-they-replaced?format=amp

With a sales tax of 8.875% in nyc, the city would be earning around 5x more tax income from dining compared to street parking.

You’re really basing your economic analysis on the possibility that some restaurants might at some point in time be out of business and still have a dining shed up? What kind of wishy-washy ‘I just want the data to say what I want’ logic is that? It doesn’t matter if each and every restaurant shed is always occupied, it earns so much more income regardless.

They get far more money from taxes on the meals sold in the sheds then they would on the parking space revenue

That’s awfully rich coming from someone living in Palm Springs

> How do people see this shit and also get mad about Whole Foods/Trader Joes coming to their neighborhood? Local grocery stores make it impossible to root for them.

-/u/areYouMenthol 3 weeks ago

I don’t understand, why are you trolling on this account only now? Most people have separate troll accounts…

It’s on 86th street, the median household income in its zip code is already at $150,000… What on earth are you talking about?

But the battery will likely need to be quite a bit larger to move the heavier and less aerodynamic school bus, which is always by far the biggest component cost of an EV.