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> Removing on street parking, when our city already has a parking deficit. Building free/cheap parking spaces creates a dependency spiral where there's never e
by rtlfe 5y ago
> Removing on street parking, when our city already has a parking deficit.
Building free/cheap parking spaces creates a dependency spiral where there's never enough. Counterintuitively, the best way to meet parking demand is to start reducing the number of spaces and charge more for them.
https://mobilitylab.org/2017/07/19/voxmobility-lab-video-high-cost-free-parking/ https://mobilitylab.org/2017/07/19/voxmobility-lab-video-hig...
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoI'm not disagreeing with that. What I'm saying, because my city has tried this, is that removing parking pushes people into residential neighborhoods and illegal parking. Despite spending a lot of money of adding bike lanes to a few roads the number of bikers in my city remains flat. To change this we'd need to massively expand public transportation and convert all non-residential roads into dual use vehicle and bike divided roads. It sucks but people don't change easily.