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Not having enough parking only makes it more painful to own a car; it's //punitive// in limiting social interactions to areas that have not yet... Actually sol
by mjevans 9y ago
Not having enough parking only makes it more painful to own a car; it's //punitive// in limiting social interactions to areas that have not yet...
Actually solving the issue of making it human scale to walk around from place to place. Of having a shops and //far range transit links// within that walkable distance that actually allows someone to make a journey to a relative's house or another town/city.
Particularly on the west coast of the US, we are nowhere NEAR being able to remove a car from someone's life and expect them to maintain interactions with those not fortunate enough to be able to live within the overpriced city cores.
MAYBE in heavy urban areas like the east coast metro sprawl, which are old enough to have inherited a rail transit interlink system that isn't completely broken and which have grand-fathered-in layouts and zoning that are more human scale. Maybe there such an elimination of parking could work.
- TulliusCicero 9y ago> Not having enough parking only makes it more painful to own a car; it's //punitive// in limiting social interactions to areas that have not yet... Okay, but mandating tons of parking everywhere makes every other mode worse. It's not "should we make driving better or worse" in a vacuum, it's "how much resources do we allocate to each mode". Right now the usual answer to that is "put nearly everything into cars", and most Americans think that's the natural state of things, as if the universe has decreed that other forms of transport are unworthy.