Strong retro-1980s vibe on the designs for the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure at the Disneyland Resort. Bonus points for the use of the Jiminy Cricket Recycling Icon. #TrashCanTuesday
These U.S. Cities Have More Parking Lots Than Housing - They paved paradise again and again and again.
by Frank Jacobs, Big Think May 17, 2024
"...On average, about one-fifth of all land in city centers is dedicated to parking. But what’s the actual harm being done by all that parking space? For one, city centers that are more “parkable” become less walkable. In other words, fewer things are casually accessible.
...Americans’ attitude toward driving is changing. The share of high school seniors with a driving license has dropped from 85.3% in 1996 to 71.5% in 2015. The rise of shared, multi-modal, and (soon, they keep promising us) autonomous mobility will further reduce the need for driver’s licenses, individual cars, and massive parking facilities in city centers.
Perhaps it’s time for American cities to become denser, more lived-in, more walkable—and less “parkable.”
Conversation with a man in my street.
Him: “this isn’t a legal parking spot, is it?” (hopeful tone of voice)
Me: “if it covers any part of the driveway, no, it’s not”
Him: “Including the red part?” (Of the curb)
Me: “Uh, yeah.”
(Duh. You’re literally asking if the red means no… it means no, dude) #sfba#parking#SFBay
Me, not saying: “I saw someone the other day taking pics of a car that was parked over the red area and better than you are so they could report it, so I wouldn’t park there”
My #PetPeeve >> #people who not only do not return #shopping#carts, but they leave them in the #parking space so that you can't park there unless you get out and move the cart :o/
Alors, je vous explique : je livre souvent à la Cité internationale à #Lyon et c'est très dur de se garer, ou alors il faut payer très cher.
J'aurais besoin que vous m'aidiez à trouver une place de #parking bien placée et visible pour qu'on ne me vole pas mon #camion. Pas besoin d'une très grande place hein, juste ce qu'il faut.
Vous avez carte blanche !
Good example of how folks focus on houseless people taking up public property while ignoring how housed people do.
This house has been doing construction for months. The sidewalk (sometimes), public parking, and public parkway have been blocked. Now part of the cycle lane is as well.
"...Furthermore, for Jordan it’s not just that parking mandates are antiquated, they’re fundamentally absurd. He points out how Dallas has drawn a distinction between a “dry cleaner” and a “laundry service” through its code, mandating that the former provide 30% more parking than the latter. “These are effectively the same land-use, so it just doesn’t make sense,” he says, adding that a laundry service is already required to provide one spot for every 300 square feet of space. With a single parking spot averaging around 350 square feet, this means that, at minimum, surface parking is required to be larger than the establishment, itself...."
Just discovered one of my coworkers who drives to work actually gets here an hour early just to find a #parking spot. Says he just sits and waits for work to start. Claims to need a #car because the train takes too long. #carbrain#Brooklyn
Going car-free for #EarthDay shouldn't be a difficult challenge for anyone. Nobody should be forced to drive to meet their daily needs. If you can't #LeaveTheCarAtHome due to your govt's misplaced priorities in #transportation spending, call your mayor and governor about it. It's not just land use and #parking policy that keeps people driving, it's the billions we spend maintaining deadly #stroads.
Everyone who walks or bikes to the grocery store is paying for this #parking structure that drivers get for free. Basically the opposite of a #carbonTax.
The value of efforts to #decarbonize is undercut by our continued failure to implement a real #CarbonTax. It's difficult to make a business selling electric cargo bikes if gas is cheap and car #parking is free. Meanwhile we have a housing crisis, because people like to sit in traffic while the radio tells them that the size of their car loan is a status symbol.
The city of Stamford opened a massive new parking garage right next to the city's main train station. Now, just two weeks into its life, it is filled to capacity.
This is a basic lesson in induced demand, a concept that planners have understood for decades. It also highlights the inadequacy of the city's transit, bike infrastructure, and pedestrian infrastructure. The only way to solve traffic is giving people alternatives to driving.
Actually, this will probably get pushed through. The developers of large apartment buildings hate providing space for resident car parking. They'd make more money using that space for more units. The only people who will oppose it are existing residents in the local areas, who park on the street. Many residents of large apartment buildings are still going to have cars, and they'll be competing for parking spots on the streets. Hilarity ensues. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/14/victoria-car-park-apartment-minimum-requirements-close-to-public-transport-ptal
Free/cheap #parking is a terrible misallocation of public space, a massive subsidy to a subset of the population that results in making everyone's lives worse, yes, even drivers, who benefit enormously when a city actually has a well designed, safe, funded and functional #PublicTransport system. And parking minimums are another way cities are made worse by design.
Look into the history of almost any city over a certain size in a wealthy country without decent public transport and you'll find the destructive fingers of the auto and/or oil industry thwarting attempts at more efficient and just transport systems.