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The free market will reward massive retailers with lots of parking space that exist in the suburbs. There is no pre-existing infrastructure to bring customers t
by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The free market will reward massive retailers with lots of parking space that exist in the suburbs. There is no pre-existing infrastructure to bring customers to these parking-free locations in most cities.
Furthermore, semi-urban neighborhoods and alleys will enter a battlefield between tow trucks and illegally parked cars.
- bombcar 3y agoLet it run! Those who want suburbs will have them, and the cities can become dense urban utopias. Wait, you say it doesn’t end up that way? Strange.
- lukas099 3y agoThere is already a lot of private parking infrastructure in cities, and it wouldn't take long for profit-seekers to build new parking garages where demand exists. The new law could include a phase-out period if it's a problem. Over time the suburban big-box retailers will lose as fewer people will drive cars.
- jjav 3y ago> Over time the suburban big-box retailers will lose as fewer people will drive cars. No, the downtown core will lose when the shopping traffic shifts to the mall as I noted in comment above. I had a SO whose family owned one of those small shops in the old downtown when parking became restricted, so I've seen first hand what happens to downtowns when parking goes away (all those shops are gone now).