Agree. All low cost parking zones now marked as premium, just to make sure that there’s no sign of life.
RIP physical shops.
Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
The centre of town is a dead shopping mall, and you have to drive everywhere because its largely unwalkable.
That being said, I’m all aboard for building new towns, houses.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 3 days ago
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I don’t understand why LAs don’t understand that you pay for the parking space by having a thriving town centre. Making wandering around the shops an expensive expedition means people only come when they have a specific reason to.
Low footfall kills shops, and kills towns, so don’t make parking a money making scheme. Size it appropriately for the town, make it free, and maintain it. That’s it.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Upvoted to the heavens. Well, one anyways.
Cf. Governments for the last twenty plus years failing to understand that taxation receipts are not inelastic wrt to tax levels (excuse triple negative). “Increasing taxation far beyond the average individual’s ability to sustain is never going to affect receipts.”.
Never occurs to them that maybe why Gen Z sees no interest in working. Not sure I don’t agree.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 days ago
The parking in Chorley town centre is well priced and it’s always got a healthy amount of people shopping there. It’s something like £1 for up to 2 hours in the town centre, and pretty much a similar price in the longer stay car parks.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Yeah, it was very much built in the car is king era, which has left its scars. I’ve never lived there but I visit fairly regularly. It’s not perfect but it’s got a lot going for it. Cycle provision seems to be getting a lot better, for one thing!