Vehicle and parking fees raised, bike lanes added to take away traffic lanes, and traffic citation fees rising.  The city council and the mayor are slowly forcing you out of your car. Like the frog in the pot Caldwell and the city council are raising the temperature (fees) slowly until you find you are cooked. Perhaps if they stopped subsidizing the wealthy who can afford electric cars by giving them free parking, they gouge us working stiffs. The wealthy won't get hurt by this move either.  And what cities did they study for meter costs?  In many places I have visited, parking meters are only in the business district, and other areas have no meters and in fact some have free parking lots provided by the city. I think the studies result was determined first, then the search to support it began.