Holiday Parking in Charleston

The City of Charleston is offering free parking on Saturdays for the holiday season, at meters and at city-run garages (except, of course, the ones that make money, i.e. the mall parking garage and the movie theater garage).

Don't you think this is something the city should do all year round? Downtown first lost its customers to the mall. Now the mall has lost a lot of its customers to Southridge. I would think the City would want to encourage people to shop downtown every weekend by offering free parking.