[sustran] Re: "on-street parking is the most efficient type of "

[Alan Howes]

Well, Eric, have you read the latest Indian National Urban Transport
Policy?  It's very keen on off-street parking - sounds just like UK
about 40 years ago.  And look where that got us.
 
I have more to say about (I)NUTP, when I get a round tuit.
 
Alan
 

  
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Subject: [sustran] "on-street parking is the most efficient type of "



I would like to weigh in on this one, with what may to some of you look
like nothing more than a "personal religious prejudice" about matters of
transport policy and practice that I have consistently courted for my
entire career.  Which has consistently biased me against not only
off-street parking but also putting money into underground rail.

 

The nice thing about on street parking and all that visible traffic,
congestion, etc. is that you cannot avoid seeing it. It is the nature of
man that if we can avoid coming to grips with a problem, no matter how
grave, because it is hidden, we will. So let's keep our problems right
in front of our noses - as a constant reminder that we better do
something about them.

 

BTW, I am a bit surprised that my proposal for annual open citizen
mini-surveys of transport priorities in their cities has occasioned such
a deafening silence. Hmm. And I thought it was/is a real great and
useful idea. Hmm.

 

 


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