How Parking Destroys Cities
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How Parking Destroys Cities
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Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#2Should be: How Parking Destroys American Cities
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#3I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car.
Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#4I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Taxi not an option?
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#5I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
The answer to that is not more parking; it's cheap rideshare / carpooling / taxi when weather is bad, and incentivising usage of space-efficient bikes and motorbikes when weather is good.
In fact, London's taxi culture already has (or had) that sort of approach.
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#6I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Taxi not an option?
If you're going to work, that might be 15-30% of your income to pay for the trip
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#7I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Taxi not an option?
Or cycling?
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#8I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Taxi not an option?
Last time I checked taxis are pretty expensive. Not everyone wants or can spend 10 or 20 euros every time they need to go somewhere.
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#9I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Cycle?
Re: How Parking Destroys Cities
#10I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car. Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.
Cycle?
Doesn't and can't actually replace a car over a certain size of the city.
It is said that in the Netherlands 27% of all trips are done by bicycle - IIRC it's the highest percentage in Europe.
What is not mentioned though is that 50% are done by car.
If you look at the distance traveled it's 75% car, 8% bicycle.
The cities in that country that have a higher trip percentage are tiny, 100k towns.
Bicycles replace walking, not driving.