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I always wonder what impact on traffic larger vehicles have because they take up more space and people cognitively give more space to larger objects (hopefully?
by Scoundreller 3y ago
I always wonder what impact on traffic larger vehicles have because they take up more space and people cognitively give more space to larger objects (hopefully?).
The impacts on unsegmented linear street parking are obvious. Dunno why monthly/yearly permits for those aren’t by the (square) foot/metre.
- sokoloff 3y agoPresumably length (as parked) matters more than area for parking consumption. Whether my car is 5 feet wide or 6.25 feet wide doesn’t meaningfully change the amount of street parking it consumes.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoIt does if the road needs to be made wide to accommodate such vehicles, or for how wide the stalls in a parking lot are. On my small side street, there are two people who own Ford Raptors with the wide tires, and if they happen to park across from each other it becomes nearly impossible for an Amazon delivery van to drive down the remaining width of road.
- Scoundreller 3y agoThe hypotenuse might be the most sensible here. Wider needs more space to get in/out of a spot.
- carlosjobim 3y agoThe impact is exponential. A motorcycle is about 1/4 the size of a car, but needs less lanes to have a good traffic flow, or: Have a thousand motorcyclists going down a two-lane highway, their traffic will be smoother and faster than a thousand cars going down a four lane highway.