High Cost of Free Parking lecture Friday in Berkeley

from Seth, via Boingboing:

Donald Shoup, professor at UCLA, will be speaking about his book The High Price of Free Parking at UC Berkeley (this coming) Friday. Shoup estimates "the cost of all parking spaces in the U.S. exceeds the value of all cars and may even exceed the value of all roads." He also contends that the cost of free parking gets passed on to all consumers, including the poorest of society. His talk is bound get people thinking about our addiction to free parking and car-oriented politics.