The city of Eugene is seeking community input on changing off-street parking requirements in light of a 2020 emission reduction state mandate, which requires updates to transportation and housing services among all metropolitan areas in Oregon....
Don't prejudge able-looking people using parking spots for disabled. Especially if they have a disabled sticker. There are many invisible disabilities that cause pain, mobility issues, balance problems, bad lungs and other issues that make walking across a parking lot difficult.
I'm posting this for a family member who is not on Mastodon. She is 32 with an invisible disability. She has #scleraderma -- a degenerative #chronic condition. A lot of pain, on a lot of meds making her immunocompromised and other issues. Her mother also has disabilities. Neither has a wheelchair but they do have mobility issues.
She wrote "Please do not immediately assume due to age and not looking disabled on the outside that they are not truly disabled and faking it, and start yelling, screaming, swearing and degrading them. There are many disabilities which are not visible such as chronic pain, chronic fatigue, MS, arthritis, Scleroderma, lung disease, etc. Just because you cannot see the disability of a person does not mean it is not there. I have been treated like this many times, and it hurts a lot and is insulting and embarrassing. The pain of our #disabilities is enough to deal with day to day, we do not need to be treated horribly on top of it. Before acting, please find out what is going on with that person you assume is not #disabled. We are more than willing to explain, but not be treated horrible right away without asking us."
love the drivers' sense of entitlement to walk two abreast down the bikeway to their car 🙄 (yes the traffic Engineer made a mistake here too -- have they ever seen #drivers?) I moved to the other side of the parking and rode there for the rest of downtown because the "protected lane" is undersized and continually obstructed (I counted 5 issues that night) with illegal #parking or other cars doing car stuff. #pdxTraffic
This week in unexpected #bollard deployments: The #Clintonville Giant Eagle in #Columbus has used a pleasantly-dense spacing of flexi-posts to tell cars to stop #parking on the sidewalk in front of the store.
Cars "crowd streets, belch carbon, bifurcate communities, and destroy the urban fabric. Will we ever overcome our addiction? —Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker
@henrygrabar joins us to discuss his new book, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World," in which he argues that car storage is a determinative force that shapes cities, buildings, politics, and the health of the planet itself.
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"Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover the country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. From baseball stadiums in Los Angeles to malls in Atlanta, parking lots are bigger than the buildings they surround."
“Mandatory parking minimums helped shape the modern makeup of America cities. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy, in effect. More parking spaces mean bigger parking lots. Bigger parking lots mean more buildings isolated from roads and sidewalks…Faced with so much mandatory automotive-centric infrastructure, many people abandon walking and choose to drive.” Via CNN Business. #parking#cars https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/20/business/parking-minimums-cars-transportation-urban-planning/index.html
Is there a name for #daylighting where you remove parking farther back so that you can see fast-moving cars?
Reaction time = speed divided by distance. In this photo, if you remove the closest #parking spot, it only gives me time to see slow-moving #cars in the second or two that I need for making a decision to go or stop.
Good, but not enough! I also need a gap 3-4 cars back to see the fast-moving cars. (Put a bump-out & a tree there.) Everything in between can stay.
Trucks, SUVs, and tinted windows make life miserable. Today’s example: parking lots. Pulling out of your space you can’t see people walking because your vision is blocked by trucks and SUVs.
When I was young, most people drove smaller, lower cars with clear windows, so you could see through and by the cars around you and know where pedestrians were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
“Fun fact: SIM City was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground because the game would be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”
Really boring like too many real cities and suburbs?
"Parking minimums shape your entire life even if you don’t realize it, from the size of your rent check to the length of your commute to how many friends live nearby."
“Fun fact: SIM City was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground because the game would be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”
Really boring like too many real cities and suburbs?
#Richmond repeals minimum #parking requirements. Now it's time for more cities in #Virginia to follow suit, and prioritize housing for people, not cars.
"People are priced out of cities and living on the streets, yet we’ve dedicated huge swaths of land to (nearly empty) parking lots and enormous roads that are home to what we truly value: cars."
Parking changes in Eugene (www.dailyemerald.com)
The city of Eugene is seeking community input on changing off-street parking requirements in light of a 2020 emission reduction state mandate, which requires updates to transportation and housing services among all metropolitan areas in Oregon....