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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by kuschku on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:16PM (#13092812)
Why dedicated parking spaces?

Just make one wide road, of one type, and allow pedestrians to walk anywhere, and delivery vehicles to park anywhere on it.

We do the same here, it works well.

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by nashashmi on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:17PM (#13093886)
The design is called "Shared Street" and has been difficult to get the community to accept in NYC. I know because we tried. Something about cars going about freely on pedestrian filled roads scares a lot of people.
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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by kuschku on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:13PM (#13094271)
Well, then create one single lane for cars/taxi/etc through the shared street, limit it to delivery vehicles and busses, and allow parking on the rest.

Pedestrians know they won’t get hurt on the rest, and you don’t lose space.

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