This is New York City, and from the Google Street View image, it looks like there’s not a lot of street parking there.
My guess is that a number of cities with a lot of density, like NYC, probably should mandate a certain amount of public parking garage space for users in an area. Multistory parking garage space isn’t cheap, but using up street space via committing space to street parking also has costs in terms of congestion, even if the business owner doesn’t bear the costs.
EDIT: I also note, by way driving the point home with a sledgehammer, that in my Google Street View image, there’s a different vehicle parked on the sidewalk in the same spot, a red sports car.
My town requires a certain amount of onstreet parking be alotted based on number of houses on a road. Iirc it works out to about one car length per 3 houses. I live on a narrow one way road, (parking only on the right hand side, but houses on both sides- the road is too narrow so a driveway on the left becomes inaccessible with a car parked across it on the right) that has now hit its maximum on non parking areas, which has started to have an interesting effect;
one house was demoed and rebuilt with a garage included. They were not allowed to have the driveway open onto our road, as that would necessitate a yellow line in front of it, and ended up having to spend ~$1M to buy access rights to connect through the neighbor on the other side’s property.
There are currently 2 lots that could in theory be subdivided with new houses on them, that currently cannot be approved for building, because adding even one house would create the need for one new, impossible to eke out, on-street spot (even if they had a driveway, its about required parking for home service industries, guests, etc)
Same happens in commercial areas too. New businesses want to open, but due to parking mandates they have to demo other older buildings to be brought up to parking code. Asinine.
Or, rather than giving out free taxpayer funded subsidized parking, they could… Not drive there.
We already have parking mandates in most cities. It’s why all of America looks the same, flat spread out big box suburban nowheres. Parking mandates have been proven not to work and the methodology behind them at best is complete guesswork.
The solution is for people to use options other than driving. From your google maps link I was able to find:
I count roughly 5 bus lines and the N/W subway line, all within walking distance. They chose to drive to a place that had many other options to get there, and they chose here to be a dick. The problem was “not enough parking”, the problem was they decided to drive anyway.
also, that bus is there across a few years of street view. Why the heck does NYC need school busses in a dense city?
If it’s there that consistently, it might live there (is that a school over on the left?). But even schools that don’t regularly collect students with dedicated school busses might want to have some for taking groups places, either transporting them between buildings in the district or for field trips or similar.
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This is New York City, and from the Google Street View image, it looks like there’s not a lot of street parking there.
My guess is that a number of cities with a lot of density, like NYC, probably should mandate a certain amount of public parking garage space for users in an area. Multistory parking garage space isn’t cheap, but using up street space via committing space to street parking also has costs in terms of congestion, even if the business owner doesn’t bear the costs.
EDIT: I also note, by way driving the point home with a sledgehammer, that in my Google Street View image, there’s a different vehicle parked on the sidewalk in the same spot, a red sports car.
My town requires a certain amount of onstreet parking be alotted based on number of houses on a road. Iirc it works out to about one car length per 3 houses. I live on a narrow one way road, (parking only on the right hand side, but houses on both sides- the road is too narrow so a driveway on the left becomes inaccessible with a car parked across it on the right) that has now hit its maximum on non parking areas, which has started to have an interesting effect; one house was demoed and rebuilt with a garage included. They were not allowed to have the driveway open onto our road, as that would necessitate a yellow line in front of it, and ended up having to spend ~$1M to buy access rights to connect through the neighbor on the other side’s property.
There are currently 2 lots that could in theory be subdivided with new houses on them, that currently cannot be approved for building, because adding even one house would create the need for one new, impossible to eke out, on-street spot (even if they had a driveway, its about required parking for home service industries, guests, etc)
Same happens in commercial areas too. New businesses want to open, but due to parking mandates they have to demo other older buildings to be brought up to parking code. Asinine.
Or, rather than giving out free taxpayer funded subsidized parking, they could… Not drive there.
We already have parking mandates in most cities. It’s why all of America looks the same, flat spread out big box suburban nowheres. Parking mandates have been proven not to work and the methodology behind them at best is complete guesswork.
The solution is for people to use options other than driving. From your google maps link I was able to find:
I count roughly 5 bus lines and the N/W subway line, all within walking distance. They chose to drive to a place that had many other options to get there, and they chose here to be a dick. The problem was “not enough parking”, the problem was they decided to drive anyway.
Or they could build and maintain a functional public transit network that allows people to get around without cars.
I see your point, but I think it’s a patch on a broken system - even as someone who primarily uses a car for transportation.
Personally, I think this person should be towed immediately. No excuse.
also, that bus is there across a few years of street view. Why the heck does NYC need school busses in a dense city?
If it’s there that consistently, it might live there (is that a school over on the left?). But even schools that don’t regularly collect students with dedicated school busses might want to have some for taking groups places, either transporting them between buildings in the district or for field trips or similar.
You think the solution to parking problems is letting assholes park on the sidewalk?
No. What in my comment gave you that impression?
Saying it’s a lack of street parking.