You think the solution to parking problems is letting assholes park on the sidewalk?
Comment on This guy parked his car on the sidewalk, right outside a school
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
This is New York City, and from the Google Street View image, it looks like there’s not a lot of street parking there.
My guess is that a number of cities with a lot of density, like NYC, probably should mandate a certain amount of public parking garage space for users in an area. Multistory parking garage space isn’t cheap, but using up street space via committing space to street parking also has costs in terms of congestion, even if the business owner doesn’t bear the costs.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No. What in my comment gave you that impression?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Saying it’s a lack of street parking.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Or, rather than giving out free taxpayer funded subsidized parking, they could… Not drive there.
We already have parking mandates in most cities. It’s why all of America looks the same, flat spread out big box suburban nowheres. Parking mandates have been proven not to work and the methodology behind them at best is complete guesswork.
The solution is for people to have other options besides driving.
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My town requires a certain amount of onstreet parking be alotted based on number of houses on a road. Iirc it works out to about one car length per 3 houses. I live on a narrow one way road, (parking only on the right hand side, but houses on both sides- the road is too narrow so a driveway on the left becomes inaccessible with a car parked across it on the right) that has now hit its maximum on non parking areas, which has started to have an interesting effect; one house was demoed and rebuilt with a garage included. They were not allowed to have the driveway open onto our road, as that would necessitate a yellow line in front of it, and ended up having to spend ~$1M to buy access rights to connect through the neighbor on the other side’s property.
There are currently 2 lots that could in theory be subdivided with new houses on them, that currently cannot be approved for building, because adding even one house would create the need for one new, impossible to eke out, on-street spot (even if they had a driveway, its about required parking for home service industries, guests, etc)
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Same happens in commercial areas too. New businesses want to open, but due to parking mandates they have to demo other older buildings to be brought up to parking code. Asinine.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Or they could build and maintain a functional public transit network that allows people to get around without cars.
I see your point, but I think it’s a patch on a broken system - even as someone who primarily uses a car for transportation.
Personally, I think this person should be towed immediately. No excuse.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
If it's there that consistently, it might live there (is that a school over on the left?). But even schools that don't regularly collect students with dedicated school busses busses might want to have some for taking groups places, either transporting them between buildings in the district or for field trips or similar.