> when I am not driving my car I park it, it is not adding to congestion
Of course it is. Banning street-side parking would double or triple most cities’ navigable road space.
Of course it is. Banning street-side parking would double or triple most cities’ navigable road space.
Many of these side streets and neighbourhoods are designed and modified NOT to flow, because then people would use them to get to work. Would this change that?
While I admit I see these more in the ‘burbs, this is becoming more widespread and is no longer exclusive to them.
It does increase throughput. And it’s not relevant to a weighing of reducing ridesharing and increasing lanes—both would induce demand.
And as another person said, a single streetside-parked car has made that entire street more dangerous for bikers. Take out streetside parking and you can add lanes for cars, light rail, busses, bikes or even just widen sidewalks and add more trees.
Parked cars add to congestion far more uselessly than taxis, ride sharing vehicles or AVs.
In some places throughput isn’t needed… safety is.