In the same month that Logan International Airport hiked its parking rates by $1, Governor Deval Patrick is asking for another $2 parking “carbon fee” as part of his transportation overhaul filed this week.
The carbon fee, described on page 137 of Patrick’s 141-page bill, would that mean a 20- or 30-minute trip to pick up a relative at Logan could cost $6 in parking alone, not including tunnel tolls, which could rise to as much as $7 if legislators fail to pass Patrick’s other proposal to raise the gas tax. Three hours in a Logan garage would cost $18; all-day parking in a garage would run $26.
Boston’s short-term rates are currently higher than those in the nation’s largest cities – from New York’s LaGuardia to Los Angeles International, to Chicago’s O’Hare.
It’s still cheaper than the miserable SFO airport in San Francisco.
Found by Joe Carlson.
Uhm. Last I heard, there is no oxygen shortage. And, as far as I can see, the atmosphere is still 78% Nitrogen, 20.8% Oxygen, a little bit of argon and other trace gases and a whopping 0.03% carbon dioxide.
I believe the governments are simply accepting this CO2 nonsense without hesitation because it gives them new opportunities to impose taxes. I would like to see a movement to force any government who imposes a carbon tax to disclose how those monies will be used to improve the environment. And then institute a monitoring plan to make sure it is done.
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“I believe the governments are simply accepting this CO2 nonsense without hesitation because it gives them new opportunities to impose taxes.”
Exactly.
Just missing word “more” before word “taxes”.
In Perth, Western Australia, the airport charges AUD$10 for short term parking. A total rip off. There are plenty of fly-in/fly-out workers who work up north. Often their wife drops them off or picks them up.
There is a long access road into the domestic terminal where these flying workers commute from. When you drive to the airport you will see heaps of cars parked on the shoulder with a passenger behind the wheel. They are the wives of workers flying in. When the plane lands, the husbands TXT their wife who is sitting in the car. The she can drive up and pick him up without (a) having to waste fuel driving in circles, (b) pay out the nose for short term parking.
The airport was so greedy that they managed to drive away the very customers they were counting on to fund whatever pet project they had in mind.
Of course now the airport is trying to get these parked cars on the side of the road outlawed in the name of “public safety”. That is pure BS. They are just upset that families with mobile phones outsmarted them. I expect the next plan to is to make the road to the airport a toll road, like they do in Dallas. Bastards.