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How many customers does a street parking outside a business really provide? 1 customer an hour? And how many will park there and go somewhere else not even visi

How many customers does a street parking outside a business really provide? 1 customer an hour? And how many will park there and go somewhere else not even visiting the store with the curb parking? Cars don't visit shops, people do. From the amount of visitors a store in a street sees, vanishingly little of them comes from the few parking spots outside. Metro, buses, cycling however brings loads. Personally I avoid the shopping streets with car traffic. Feels hostile and noisy. I go to the shops in pedestrian areas.

asdff 2y ago
It all comes down to local demographics. In many car centric areas, car drivers make up maybe 85% or higher of the workforce. And of that 15% of the workforce that doesn't get around via a car, they might be making something close to the federal poverty line. In other words, for some of these downtown businesses if you make it unattractive for drivers, you really do dry them out and force them out of business. The guy making $15k a year riding the bus isn't interested in your $15 sandwich for lunch. You are gone and whats going to appear in your wake is probably a place where someone making $15k a year could afford for a couple dollar lunch, probably something like a 7/11 or a mcdonalds. In other places, people who use transit or bike around on average might be much higher income and could support different sort of businesses.
zelos 2y ago
In my UK village, which has plenty of free off street parking 2 minutes walk from the high street, people will park on the street outside the shops even if it means interfering with traffic or parking on the pavement. People really hate to walk.