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Kinda. If "road" includes parking, they're not that far off, hyperbole aside. https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/ https://parkingreform.org/res

Kinda. If "road" includes parking, they're not that far off, hyperbole aside. https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/ https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/

rsynnott 3y ago
So, funny thing. Most of my experience of the US has been San Francisco and its immediate area. From my perspective, it's very road-oriented, and has an astonishing amount of space given over to parking; giant tech company offices and new apartment blocks are side by side with massive parking lots. You just don't really see that much in large European cities. Anyway, looks like it's 3% based on that map (though the area I was primarily thinking of falls just outside their definition of 'central', I think), compared to _26%_ for Atlanta. I'm having trouble visualising what that even looks like.
- sarchertech 3y ago
  I went to school right in the middle of that map. It’s very selectively picked to get to 26%. The boundary includes a very small percentage of the city which happens to house a large sports stadiums, local and federal government buildings, a large hospital, and one of the largest universities in the country that is primarily a commuter school. Also the map seems to count some of the underground parking at GSU as taking up space above ground.
sarchertech 3y ago
I don’t think they are talking about parking because parking has nothing to do with a government being able to build roads vs rails. Parking essentially has none of the problems of building across the boundaries of multiple land owners that makes building a road or rail difficult. Even if you do count roads if you move that boundary out just a little the number will drastically drop. It’s essentially a boundary drawn around some government buildings, sports arenas, and one of the largest Universities in the world which also happens to be a commuter school (I went there for undergrad btw).

Kinda. If "road" includes parking, they're not that far off, hyperbole aside. https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/ https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/

rsynnott 3y ago

So, funny thing. Most of my experience of the US has been San Francisco and its immediate area. From my perspective, it's very road-oriented, and has an astonishing amount of space given over to parking; giant tech company offices and new apartment blocks are side by side with massive parking lots. You just don't really see that much in large European cities. Anyway, looks like it's 3% based on that map (though the area I was primarily thinking of falls just outside their definition of 'central', I think), compared to _26%_ for Atlanta. I'm having trouble visualising what that even looks like.

sarchertech 3y ago
I went to school right in the middle of that map. It’s very selectively picked to get to 26%. The boundary includes a very small percentage of the city which happens to house a large sports stadiums, local and federal government buildings, a large hospital, and one of the largest universities in the country that is primarily a commuter school. Also the map seems to count some of the underground parking at GSU as taking up space above ground.

sarchertech 3y ago

I don’t think they are talking about parking because parking has nothing to do with a government being able to build roads vs rails. Parking essentially has none of the problems of building across the boundaries of multiple land owners that makes building a road or rail difficult. Even if you do count roads if you move that boundary out just a little the number will drastically drop. It’s essentially a boundary drawn around some government buildings, sports arenas, and one of the largest Universities in the world which also happens to be a commuter school (I went there for undergrad btw).