Or you could provide meaningful alternatives to driving, which is my preferred solution but has a whole different set of problems (mostly zoning-related).
It's not enough. Driving is always the better option for an individual, even in cities with great public transport, so you need a bit of stick as well as the carrot.
Re:The Prophet of Parking
by potato3732842 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:07AM
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I hear takes like this all the time but it's just not true. Even without high parking costs the time and frustration expenditure of driving rules out that option for a huge fraction of trips.
> You could issue street parking permits to the residents of the old properties but not of the new ones.
London does this and it works well. New buildings have to be zero parking, there's some grumbling but residents of a new apartment block don't feel so bad when they lose something they never had - they know from the day they move in that they won't have parking, so if that's going to screw them over then they don't move there in the first place. And then you gradually reclaim the parking spaces as the area is developed.
You could issue street parking permits to the residents of the old properties but not of the new ones. Or you could adjust the prices of the permits to achieve the desired occupancy rate. Or you could keep parking free, fine improperly parked cars, and let the residents decide for themselves if the car is worth the inconvenience of finding parking.