Re:U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums
by jjav on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:45PM
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> Good. Then more people will choose different forms of transportation or internalize their costs.
That's not really how it goes. This assumes that if you make it painful for people to do what you don't like (park), they'll stay and live the way you want.
But no, people will simply abandon the area due to inconvenience. The area I mentioned above (previous post) went from a nice affluent residential area to a dilapidated area where only the poor and university students (also poor) lived. Everyone who could afford to leave, left.
Humans will always look for a better solution for themselves unless you impose a complete dictatorship. It is not possible to advance a cause (whether it be less cars or more public transit or better EV support or better bike paths, etc) by simply making the status quo inconvenient. People will simply avoid it.
You advance a cause by making the new alternative actually more attractive, then the majority of people will happily adopt it.
That's not really how it goes. This assumes that if you make it painful for people to do what you don't like (park), they'll stay and live the way you want.
But no, people will simply abandon the area due to inconvenience. The area I mentioned above (previous post) went from a nice affluent residential area to a dilapidated area where only the poor and university students (also poor) lived. Everyone who could afford to leave, left.
Humans will always look for a better solution for themselves unless you impose a complete dictatorship. It is not possible to advance a cause (whether it be less cars or more public transit or better EV support or better bike paths, etc) by simply making the status quo inconvenient. People will simply avoid it.
You advance a cause by making the new alternative actually more attractive, then the majority of people will happily adopt it.