Many of us have harbored concerns that the more lunatic environmentalist extremists, and anti-automobile crazies, would want to impose all kinds of new parking charges, on employees as well as customers.

That, in addition to stunts like proposing a commuter tax and automobile central-city entrance charge in the case of those few still-alive old central cities where people continue to be drawn, such as New York City.

Lack of parking spaces in general is why most cities now require parking garages to be constructed when a new large building is built. Suddenly, when made to bear the cost of parking space, it begins to dawn on merchants, developers, tenants and others that space isn't free and that cars use a whole lot of it.

Even out in the 'burbs, parking space isn't free. It may be free to the customers, but the land owner has to give up an awful lot of what was, but less now, valuable land that he could be renting out.