Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ...
by kqr on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:42AM
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Funnily enough, if you replace parking lots with homes, businesses, entertainment, education, and commercial buildings, you are likely to get
- More and better public transport
- Disabled people can go where they need to more easily
- Streets will be less dangerous
- You have more shops nearby
Excessive parking lots are the cause of almost all of the problems you mention. Keeping parking lots around won't fix the problems caused by parking lots.
(The exceptions are vacations and transporting equipment. You probably need a car for that. Depending on how often you go on vacation or transport equipment, you may or may not need your own personal car sitting idle 98 % of the year. But if you do, great, you're in the small minority we should build parking lots for. We don't need very many parking lots for you.)
- More and better public transport
- Disabled people can go where they need to more easily
- Streets will be less dangerous
- You have more shops nearby
Excessive parking lots are the cause of almost all of the problems you mention. Keeping parking lots around won't fix the problems caused by parking lots.
(The exceptions are vacations and transporting equipment. You probably need a car for that. Depending on how often you go on vacation or transport equipment, you may or may not need your own personal car sitting idle 98 % of the year. But if you do, great, you're in the small minority we should build parking lots for. We don't need very many parking lots for you.)