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America is a bit strange with its excessive reliance on on-street parking. If you really want to reduce car traffic in a city, getting rid of on-street parking
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
America is a bit strange with its excessive reliance on on-street parking. If you really want to reduce car traffic in a city, getting rid of on-street parking (or adding metered on street parking) would be the way to do that after getting rid parking requirements, cities could do it gradually, replacing a line of street parking with bike lanes or better pedestrian access.
- aidenn0 2y agoThere are also large swaths of America where not paying for parking is done on principle. I live in SoCal, and the paid public parking lots were (until recently) free for an hour, then $1.50 per hour after that. I would see things like a BMW 7-series circling the blocks looking for a free spot on the street. I ran the math and the lease on a 7-series at the time was nearly $1.50/hour!
- ge96 2y agoIf I go into a city I try not to drive/use Uber. On the other side of that doing driving gigs (delivery) I avoid driving in a city because can't find a place to park/don't want to get towed.
- asdff 2y agoWhat is crazy about socal is that it's also price insensitive to that sort of behavioral shifting one might expect from more expensive parking. These days, good luck parking around weho without just throwing your hands in the air and paying a valet $40 thanks to the byzantine web of local permit zones that has emerged in recent years, mostly in mid city and the west side for now. It hasn't lessened the amount of people going down santa monica blvd or anything, and people certainly aren't taking a bus to a $40 plate dinner. Just hurts the subset of people who have to get out there for whatever reason and can't easily stomach a valet hit in stride.