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- 6500 parking spaces
- Staging areas outside the park are impractical, even un-American
- Car driving is free-choice, buses are socialism - Board of Supervisors
- Each year tourists bring $686 Million to Yosemite Valley
- Car entry fee $30
- Park's latest pilot plan: 150 parking spaces available for $1.50 on-line fee
- Laguna gets 6 million visitors per year (Visitors Bureau)
- Yosemite has a million to go
Clearly Yosemite needs more parking, like a parking garage. Mebbe eight? Decades ago the Yosemite Valley Railroad served the valley with passenger trains, restoration of the rail is politically unpopular and financially challenged, but you can still trace the old railbed by car.
UPDATE: 10/23/17 Car entry fees are expected to double, $70 per vehicle will pay for bathrooms, parking lots and road construction. Building more car infrastructure draws more cars, what better example than Yosemite. -LS
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