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Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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Said councils need to provide adequate parking, and ensure that future developments have such.
Councils need to provide public transport, and support walking and cycling
Sure, and the government needs to regulate the public transport industry such that they stop structuring their businesses so they can squirrel their profits away using Hollywood-style accounting. But, failing that, councils need to plan cities appropriately.
Even London, which has decent public transport, has decent space for parking.
So you want the city to freely give public space for your private vehicle?
Yes, Because I am entitled. So there. Peasant.
Why do city governments need to provide free/subsidized storage for private vehicles in public spaces, now?
It is not financially nor geometrically sustainable. It is a wealth transfer from the poorer to the richer. People who want cars can store them on their own property.
Private vehicles are owned by members of the public. The public pay taxes.
It not being "geometrically sustainable" is the result of poor planning - which the city council is responsible for.
Everything is owned by members of the public. That is not a clever argument.
There's no reason to be subsidizing this. It is not necessary nor helpful for the health of the city.
Not being geometrically sustainable means that a city with good planning doesn't lean into it. It's not the "result of poor planning". You can't change the laws of geometry with planning. Cars are an inefficient and ineffective transportation plan outside of the countryside and cities should only support them the bare minimum necessary while encouraging other forms as primary - subsidizing them by providing free/mandatory parking is leaps and bounds beyond the bare minimum and can quickly put to death sustainable urban growth.
When in the midst of a housing crisis we should not be devoting city resources to these intensely inefficient, regressive uses.
That would hurt the number of little boxes their developer cousins can build though.
Because the private vehicles are owned by members of the public, and the public pay tax to the government. They're also obligated to plan cities appropriately, rather than blame the problems on mistakes of past governments.