The next time you drive downtown and cannot find a parking space, remember that there are worse things, like, for example, finding a lot of parking spaces in front of a lot of empty storefronts.

Cities go to great lengths to create commercial traffic, subsidizing the redevelopment of blight to create new and improved neighborhoods, often on a grand scale. This is an attempt to alter, or at least skew, market forces. If we build it, they will come. Sometime it works, sometimes it does not.

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