| Comment | Is it really hard to find parking around the city centre though? There are 6 multi storey car parks and 5 pay and display surface car parks in the city centre.
From [page 17 of the 2019 Connectivity Commission report](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/connectivitycommission):
> "Glasgow has one of the highest number of car parking spaces per capita of any UK city but its car
parks are under-utilised, suggesting there is ample space to relocate parking from on-street provision to car parks."
There's a graph on the same page of the CC report showing Glasgow has capacity for >12,000 cars in its multi-storey car parks, with average daytime usage only peaking at around 6,000 occupied spaces.
So the space is there. Whether the cost for using car parks should be covered by employers... I don't think so. If public transport costs aren't covered by employer or the state, I find it hard to see the justification for covering costs of parking. If you do that, you're in essence subsidizing and encouraging people to drive rather than take public transport, at a time when the government has a target of reducing car journeys by 20% by 2030. |
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