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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don't understand how having fewer parking spaces per unit is supposed to work until DASH service is improved.  My kids take it to school and home from sports and to their weekend jobs, and the waits can be really long at times.  I can't see it being a viable option for many adults.[/quote]

Parking induces driving. If you make it easy to park a second/third/etc... vehicle, then people will buy those vehicles. Then trips that could have been carpool/bus/walking/bike get turned into car trips because the spare car is available. [/quote]

This is a bit like arguing that cutting taxes on the rich results in more jobs because they have more money to invest, and yet I'm certain you don't believe that. [/quote]

It's not like that at all. Everyone seems to understand the "people choose not to go by bus because it's inconvenient" argument without any problems, but the "people choose not to go by car because it's inconvenient" argument is surprisingly difficult for a surprising number of people to understand.[/quote]

Cars are a bajillion times more convenient than any other mode of transportation (which is why they're so popular), and making parking more difficult isn't going to change that. If you make it harder to park in one area, people will just go somewhere else. They have cars! It's easy to skip across town. This notion that people will give up their cars and start riding bikes or the bus if you just make it hard to park is nonsense (and belied by the data -- biking remains wildly unpopular, and bus ridership is lower than it was 20 years ago). [/quote]

The data says the opposite:

"Cheap, excessive parking has been linked to more drive-alone commutes, worse traffic congestion, higher rents, and all the other social costs of over-reliance on cars for urban mobility."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/study-the-strongest-evidence-yet-that-abudant-parking-causes-more-driving

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