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But we also built our society to make the car more convenient. Can’t remember the ratio but the amount of parking space available per car is absolutely insane.
by jeromegv 3y ago
But we also built our society to make the car more convenient. Can’t remember the ratio but the amount of parking space available per car is absolutely insane. That means a relatively cheap access to put your giant car almost anywhere you go. Most cities are built around that idea and that makes other form of transportations almost impractical.
So yes the car is convenient but we also built many things to make it more convenient. In places where subways/rapid transit are made more convenient, there’s of course less parking and less road space and naturally % of car ownership goes down
It’s a choice. It’s not naturally always based on the merit of the car.
- gdilla 3y ago800 parking spots per car in the US.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoSource? A quick Google turns up 8 as a common number, not 800.
- sokoloff 3y agoDoes "800 parking spots per car" pass the sniff test? There's order of magnitude 1 car per US resident. Does it seem like there are 800 parking spots per US resident? A quarter of a trillion total parking spots? I doubt my car parks in 800 unique places (including different street parking spots as unique) in a given year. On the smaller end, call each space 16'x8'. That puts a little more than 2% of the entire land mass of the US as parking spaces (assuming I didn't get any of the exponents wrong).
- wizofaus 3y agoPerhaps if you accept that freeways function as parking spots during major traffic jams...