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There are more than one parking spot per car. One at home, one at work, one at the grocery store, one at the cafe. Some of those are shared, but it is entirely

There are more than one parking spot per car. One at home, one at work, one at the grocery store, one at the cafe. Some of those are shared, but it is entirely believable that we have more paved parking than we have housing

iso1631 3y ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parking-spaces-for-every-car-heres-how-cities-are-rethinking-that-land https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parki... "America has eight parking spaces for every car. Here’s how cities are rethinking that land" Wow.
- afiori 3y ago
  It is important to note that car usage an extra parking are strongly correlated as any car is either parked or travelling. If you add more cars without adding at least 2 parking spaces per car you almost surely get less usage or cars stuck in traffic. Car infrastructure is very expensive, see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...
josephcsible 3y ago
If you're only counting the square footage of people's homes rather than of everywhere they go, then you should also only count the square footage of their driveways rather than of everywhere they park their cars.
- afiori 3y ago
  This is only a fair comparison if you assume that cars are as important as people and deserve half of the space for everithing else in the world.
NumberWangMan 3y ago
Interestingly, one practical tactic for increasing walkability in cities is to focus on increasing the re-usability of parking. People who live in an apartment and drive to work don't need their parking space during the day, so sometimes you can have an apartment and an office share parking spaces, in the middle of a city. Obviously there's nowhere near 100% overlap, but if you can get to a situation where you only need 150% as much parking instead of of 200%, that's great.
- estebank 3y ago
  A precondition for that is mixed use residential zoning, which urbanists are also for and US cities are generally against.

iso1631 3y ago

https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parking-spaces-for-every-car-heres-how-cities-are-rethinking-that-land https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parki... "America has eight parking spaces for every car. Here’s how cities are rethinking that land" Wow.

afiori 3y ago
It is important to note that car usage an extra parking are strongly correlated as any car is either parked or travelling. If you add more cars without adding at least 2 parking spaces per car you almost surely get less usage or cars stuck in traffic. Car infrastructure is very expensive, see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...

josephcsible 3y ago

If you're only counting the square footage of people's homes rather than of everywhere they go, then you should also only count the square footage of their driveways rather than of everywhere they park their cars.

afiori 3y ago
This is only a fair comparison if you assume that cars are as important as people and deserve half of the space for everithing else in the world.

NumberWangMan 3y ago

Interestingly, one practical tactic for increasing walkability in cities is to focus on increasing the re-usability of parking. People who live in an apartment and drive to work don't need their parking space during the day, so sometimes you can have an apartment and an office share parking spaces, in the middle of a city. Obviously there's nowhere near 100% overlap, but if you can get to a situation where you only need 150% as much parking instead of of 200%, that's great.

estebank 3y ago
A precondition for that is mixed use residential zoning, which urbanists are also for and US cities are generally against.