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Parking being hard to find is a problem with an easy, obvious and politically difficult solution, just like excessive traffic at peak hours. Charge for parking.
by barry-cotter 7y ago
Parking being hard to find is a problem with an easy, obvious and politically difficult solution, just like excessive traffic at peak hours. Charge for parking. If they’re not illegal someone will set up a parking lot and if demand is high enough eventually a parking garage. Charge people for things they want, like parking, or access to Singapore or London city centre during peak hours. Those who don’t value it enough to pay for it will stay home or go elsewhere.
- obelos 7y agoNearly always when people say it's hard to find parking they mean _free_ on-street parking. I've rarely had a problem parking in Portland because I'm willing to pay for the privilege of storing my car when I'm not using it.
- georgeburdell 7y agoTo be clear, I’m not talking about visitor parking. Even with garages and a driveway, residential parking spills into the street in suburban neighborhoods. Suburban Portland is not Chicago or Singapore. There is no competing transit infrastructure outside of a few main thoroughfares. Also it’s tone deaf for you to propose parking fees for residents in response to the increased number of cars brought about by a density increase in suburban neighborhoods, ostensibly to solve a housing affordability crisis. Single family neighborhoods need to just be razed to the ground and reconstructed in a sustainable manner, not this bandaid
- bluGill 7y agoTransit can be made better by adding more people. The more people who take transit the more routes transit can afford, the more people who can. The cycle re-enforces itself. However this only works when there are enough people in the first place. So adding density makes transit work.