According to this new study, off-street parking takes up:
🔹14% of downtown Minneapolis
🔹 15.6% of downtown Phoenix
🔹 20.5% of downtown Dallas
🔹 22.3% of downtown Los Angeles
🔹 31.7% of downtown Tulsa
According to this new study, off-street parking takes up:
🔹14% of downtown Minneapolis
🔹 15.6% of downtown Phoenix
🔹 20.5% of downtown Dallas
🔹 22.3% of downtown Los Angeles
🔹 31.7% of downtown Tulsa
Same.
For example, the city’s library is totally off limits because there’s no way to get there because there’s no place to park.
Even so, I’d still like to convert the on-street parking into bike lanes and mandate adequate off-street parking as a prerequisite for new building permits.
Mandatory parking minimums will just incentivize driving and make biking even worse, even if you also install some bike parking near the streets. It’ll make all buildings more expensive because they’ll need double the land so they can have the off-street parking you want, everything will be spaced further apart because half the land is dedicated to parking, and inevitably the streets will become more car friendly because everyone is driving anyway, might as well try to get the drivers where they want quickly and efficiently.
I support mandatory parking minimums, for bicycles. Many american cities are adding bike lanes to streets. You could bike there, but outside of the central core of the city there is no guarantee there will be any place to lock up the bike on arrival.
Parking minimums for bikes, parking maximums for cars.