As the cofounder of the Lincoln Railroad Party and a strong transit advocate, I have to say I strongly oppose this bill on its premises. All this will do is further cement the car-centric design of many Atlasian cities when we should be trying to do the opposite in order to increase transit efficiency and sustainability.
(b) Parking facilities are a nessessity for many people, especially those who live in urban areas or don't have a private parking area attached to their place of residence.
The reason parking facilities are a necessity for so many is decades of policy that has forced cars to become a necessity of living in most cities. This is something that we should absolutely not be accepting as an inevitable fact - rather, we should be actively trying to build up transit in every large Atlasian city in order to drastically reduce car dependence.
Also:
> Parking fines for unauthorised parking are capped at $20 a time. Parking fines are extortionately expensive. There is no good reason why someone should have to pay $50-100 for accidentally overstaying.
In most transit systems that exist within Atlasia, the punishment for fare evasion is a fine up to (or even higher than) $300, potential jail time, and a criminal record. Compared to this, parking fines, as you’ve pointed out, are only $50-100 (and being paid by drivers, who are overall a much wealthier group than transit users) with no similar criminal consequences. Further reducing the max fine only for parking would be a further commitment to the idea that drivers can do whatever they want on public roads with little to no consequences while transit users are punished in a dramatically disproportionate manner - an idea that ultimately is rooted in the same authoritarian policing ideals that gave us stop-and-frisk and the War on Drugs.
