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> New apartment blocks are build without providing the required parking, and people aren't willing to pay for parking when visiting the city center. What exact

> New apartment blocks are build without providing the required parking, and people aren't willing to pay for parking when visiting the city center. What exactly is the “required parking”? Here in london most new developments are prohibited from building parking, and are also frequently ineligible for parking permits, because we want less cars on our roads not more. The roads are already full to bursting, and you can’t build more of them. The number of people who need a car to go work in London is minuscule. We have fantastic public transport, and rapidly growing cycle infrastructure. Today travelling by bike or tube is normally twice a fast as a car. And when I say bike, I don’t mean Lycra clad speeders, I’m talking about casual cycle through the city in normal clothes and no sweat. > For when you're just going to a cafe, restaurant, or shopping, I don't get why people can just pay the parking fee, it's often not nearly as expensive as people make it out to be. Most on street parking is 1. Full, so you probably can’t park. Not an issue with a bike, bus or tube. 2. Strictly time limited. Unless you wanna move your cat every hour or two, parking probably isn’t going to work for you.

mrweasel 5y ago
Does it need to be on street parking though? I'd argue that most new building should just be built with a parking basement. Under ground parking can provide most, if not all of the parking required within modern cities. Developers just don't want to add them, due to cost of construction. There are a few new apartment building going up in the city center 20 minutes from my home. Each apartment is required to provide 1.7 parking spot per apartment. It's not required to be on street, or even above ground.
- avianlyric 5y ago
  To be clear, the restriction is no parking, not, no on street parking. The city wants these developments to add exactly zero parking or cars to the city. Underground or otherwise. Parked cars don’t pollute or cause traffic, the issue is when people start driving them. In my new build the developer was restricted (not required to build, a maximum allowed to build) to 0.3 spaces per apartment. That was two years ago, in one years time, a new build here will be restricted to zero spaces per apartment.

mrweasel 5y ago

Does it need to be on street parking though? I'd argue that most new building should just be built with a parking basement. Under ground parking can provide most, if not all of the parking required within modern cities. Developers just don't want to add them, due to cost of construction. There are a few new apartment building going up in the city center 20 minutes from my home. Each apartment is required to provide 1.7 parking spot per apartment. It's not required to be on street, or even above ground.

avianlyric 5y ago
To be clear, the restriction is no parking, not, no on street parking. The city wants these developments to add exactly zero parking or cars to the city. Underground or otherwise. Parked cars don’t pollute or cause traffic, the issue is when people start driving them. In my new build the developer was restricted (not required to build, a maximum allowed to build) to 0.3 spaces per apartment. That was two years ago, in one years time, a new build here will be restricted to zero spaces per apartment.