IHSS HW: Reflection Blog, Gustavo

 Gustavo Alvarez 

IHSS 

Mr. Roddy 

1/20/2022 

When I read the article it started to make me think about the possibilities that could happen with the idea of eliminating free lane parking. While I agree with the idea of trying to eliminate lane parking, the way that Shoup, the “founder” of this movement, wants to handle it, is bad. Shoup claims that if we raise the prices of lane parking into almost unaffordable amounts, most people will not be able to park in lanes and instead would use public transportation. While at first glance this might seem like a good idea, all it would do is further make the lower class have a harder time with money while the upper class will still be largely unaffected. He did however have other ideas where he planned to put parking meters in UT in order to decrease the amount of parking at the university. 

Even though Shoup himself may have had some not very thoughtful ideas, his followers, Shoupistas, had better ideas. The best implemented plan that I saw from the Shoupista was the change they made in Berkeley university. There, they implemented a system where planners that were planning to expand parking areas would now have to go and get it approved by the Berkeley city council. Overall, I agree with this group and ideas to push for less lane parking and hopefully more public transportation. I also hope that this movement can grow much bigger and make bigger reforms. I hope this can grow much bigger and push for bigger reforms.


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