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Jake Auchincloss: “The minimum parking requirements, the subsidized price of…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 15:52

As you know better than me. But in America, the politics of that are incredibly challenging. And probably a better and more politically feasible way is to go after the parking. The minimum parking requirements, the subsidized price of parking are really their backdoor ways of subsidizing driving. And if you go after the parking, I think what you do is you simultaneously address the congestion pricing problems, and you also, I think, open the door towards pairing autonomous vehicles with walkable developments in a way that can be. (15:52–16:04)

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Asserts that minimum parking requirements and subsidized parking prices subsidize driving.

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