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> The problem isn’t really enforcement The problem is street-side parking.
by JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
> The problem isn’t really enforcement
The problem is street-side parking.
- kelnos 7mo agoStreet side parking is fine. You can move the parking out a few feet and put the bike lane between the ordering and curb. Works well where I've seen it.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> Street side parking is fine It’s a massive subsidy that takes up space. If you have the space to move it and still permit e.g. delivery trucks from blocking the road, great. Many cities don’t have that space and yet cede it to parking.
- stonogo 7mo agoNothing's stopping you from charging for street parking. If it's a subsidy, that's a political decision, not an inherent flaw in street parking.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoCharging for street parking is a good step, but American neighborhoods still don’t have great transit and most people still have cars even if they are living in a house/apartment without parking. We aren’t like Japan where car owners have to prove that they have ample parking for their cars.
- amanaplanacanal 7mo agoI would guess that there are very few houses and apartments without parking in the US.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoYou would be very wrong, but I live in Seattle so my experience differs from yours. Definitely here in Ballard I’d say 50% of the residents are parking on the street.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo ago(statistically, you are probably right if you are talking about the entire population of America, but we are really only concerned with a few dense cities and parking minimums have been on the out for a couple of decades now)
- amanaplanacanal 7mo agoI believe Stroup showed a long time ago that the best solution is to price parking so that there is an average of one empty parking spot per block.
- amanaplanacanal 7mo agoIf the automobile was brand new today, I suspect that it would be a hard sell to convince people that taxpayers should pay to provide free storage for people's private cars.