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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior by swiley on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:02PM (#21875216)
Surface lots might not be so bad if people could camp in their cars, it would probably put a lot of downward pressure on the housing market and help homeless people. Those ideas tend to not be popular though.
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior by bobthepanda on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @07:30PM (#21875902)
Surface lots mostly only exist because of arbitrary government regulation requiring a minimum amount of parking. It's clearly too high, since the vast majority of developers will only ever build the absolute minimum number of parking required, and even during the busiest shopping days of the year American parking lots aren't really full.

It would be a lot better to just free up the parking lots as actual developable land.

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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:05PM (#21876726)
Camp in parking lots with children and elderly parents?
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