Re:Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
by 0xB31B1B on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:48AM
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Very few people actually need a car. The status quo in most cities is that car use is extremely subsidized through free parking. Remove the subsidy and allow people to pay the cost for their choices.
Re:Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
by bluGill on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:02PM
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Might be true in Paris, but not in all cities. Most cities don't have the transport system to allow a serious about not having a car. Most cities are pretty small though, the bigger the city the more likely it is to have a transport system.
Re:Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
by 0xB31B1B on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:00AM
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This isn’t correct at all. If you look at cities by population and/or density pretty much all global cities, from SF to Lima to Tokyo have sufficient transit and non-car mode share.
Re:Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
by bluGill on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:20AM
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Most cities have a fraction of that population. The cities you named are a minority of the cities in the world.
There are a group of people that are hurt but those people aren't around to complain.
The same with this. The people who need a car and can't get a space have to move out. Now it's true that population could be zero but to the extent it's more then zero you probably won't hear from them because they aren't in Paris.