re: #39 lawhawk

By design. It’s by design.

Midtown Manhattan has street level parking garages that take up valuable land space that could be built upon. Then there’s all the street-side “spots” that could be provided to pedestrians, which provide more density and use than a place to store a vehicle for a period of time.

Drivers hated that a few spots in various locations around NYC were given over to bike share programs. They absolutely hated that even more spots were taken to provide outdoor dining. Thing is, people who lived and work in those areas like the alternatives to parking on the street. Businesses love the outdoor dining areas and even when Broadway was redesigned through Times Square, pedestrian flow not only improved, but traffic improved.

Speaking as a suburbanite, I don’t understand why there isn’t dense public transit in cities linked to adequate parking facilities on the periphery. I would like nothing better than to drive from my totally-unserved-by-public-transportation home (and to be fair, it will never be possible to do transit to a reasonable distance from my home) to a parking structure that will have enough space to leave my car and just ride transit from there. But that’s not how things are set up for most of us.