Quote of the Week: Parking

Since I've been thinking about Parking lately, I thought this one would be good...

As more land is used for parking, less land is left for the things that really make a city great: a place to live, work, shop and socialize. Our data supports this concept. ...

The best use of the city’s land is making great places that attract people. The role of transportation policy should be to provide access to these places in the fairest, most efficient ways.

Christopher McCahill from Too Much Parking, Too Few Residents at New Urban Network

The article covers analysis of New Haven, CT and has an interesting image of New Haven's parking space in 1951 and the same area in 2008.  It looks like cancer.

Comments

[Hugh Samuel]

Definitely! Just imagine if you're surrounded with nothing but parking spaces.

[Darin]

Great quote! And very true. I want to print this quote and post it on every parking lot in downtown Atlanta.

The parking lots & decks of downtown are dead zones that break up the flow of the parts of the urban fabric that have real life in them. They're like stumbling blocks to good urbanism.

[Alexandra Woodsen]

This is true. People who convert places to parking spaces earn money from it and more or less don't think much of the consequences. It is one thing we should think about.