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France is not the US, covered in car parks. Those large, open-air car parks are pretty much exclusively located at the out-of-town shopping areas/malls (say whe
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
France is not the US, covered in car parks. Those large, open-air car parks are pretty much exclusively located at the out-of-town shopping areas/malls (say where your local Ikea is located, 'zones commerciales' in French like, for instance, this beauty [1]) and out-of-town large office campuses.
They are built because they are needed, and regulations do not make it easy to build more of them. They also do not really "impose costs" on society.
[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.829154,1.9661837,3a,75y,214.42h,93.74t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2YTRVGHYsEK-7ZI1edIM1g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D2YTRVGHYsEK-7ZI1edIM1g%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D56.520485%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.829154,1.9661837,3a,75y,21...
- maeln 4y agoI would argue that they are not needed. In some country (ex: Turkey), commercial center / zone (but also big companies) operate their own bus services to allow their customer to come without car even when they are out of town and far from public transportation. Maybe that's an idea they should take.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoSome (large) companies have bus services. Often that's to do the connection between a train station and their office. But let's be honest and realistic: thousands and thousands of people are not going to squeeze into buses for hours to go shopping in places like the one I linked to, which are usually already served by public transport.