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[discussion] Aren't parking garages a decent way to consolidate parking as densely as possible? Why the hate? (self.fuckcars)
submitted 9 months ago by weastie to c/fuckcars
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First off, I want to point out that I am totally on team /c/fuckcars. I highly believe in transit, walking, and biking.

That being said, I think it's fair to say that:

  1. Cars aren't fully going away anytime soon
  2. Even in our wildest dreams, it still makes sense for cars to be usable in some way, just that the other transport methods are highly prioritized.

So the discussion I want to have is about parking garages, and the hate I see towards them from the urbanist community.

I feel like parking garages vaguely align with urbanist views, because they are high density, and they allow someone to drive to a general area after which they can do the rest of their transportation via other methods.

To put it into perspective, I'd rather have 1-3 dense parking garages in a neighborhood than have street parking along all the roads plus wide open parking lots around grocery stores and whatnot.

I understand this is a lesser of the two evils discussion but it seems to me like parking garages are the clear winner.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Very good points here already. So I just provide an example:

They are planning to build a parking garage in the middle of my town (17000 people). The promisse is, that they will remove parking spots in many streets around the center, as the parking garage would easily compensate for them.

I see the positive aspects, less cars parking on the roads and more parking space overall.

For me the negative aspects outweight the positive here:

  • More parking spaces invite more people to take the car into the city. The sourrounding streets have less parked cars but will be much more used by cars in motion. The space we 'won' would be gone again.
  • the parking garage is very ugly, in the middle of an otherwise nice city center. It takes away the space of projects that would attract more tourists.
  • The city wants to have reduced car traffic in the city, but the parking garage is a long term investment into more car traffic, that is not easily reversed in the next 20-30 years.
  • the induced car traffic leads to all the negative things we all know.. More noise, pollution, unsafe, expensive, unhealthy
[–] AA5B 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My town has lots and three garages around the center of town. They are set back so you don’t see any ugliness or direct traffic (plus they’re small because we’re not very big). However they do support a bustling “old time Main Street” as well as transit. They are a big win for exactly what OP stated: more people can drive to enjoy the town center, including shops and restaurants, walking, or taking trains or buses into the nearby major city. The alternative is they wouldn’t come to the town center. People who don’t live right there would find it easier to drive to their suburban shopping centers and malls with huge parking lots

While there is still on street parking, it’s all very walkable and the town has been experimenting with turning a section into a pedestrian mall