My job, my father’s job, and my fiances job would not exist if not for cars. It would next to impossible for any of us, in 3 different fields, to complete our jobs without cars.
Cars are great. Building your whole society around cars is shitty and inefficient. Basically what you are saying is
My job, my father’s job, and my fiances job would not exist if not for digging holes and filling them back in again. It would next to impossible for any of us, in 3 different fields, to complete our jobs without digging holes and filling them back in again.
Even a child can understand that this kind of inefficiency is a waste of valuable time, energy, and resources. If your job requires a car to do (like conducting research in remote wildlands, or picking up garbage), then… great. No one has a problem with that. But if what you are saying is “if society didnt waste billions of dollars requiring people to have cars, then my job wouldnt exist”, then your job shouldnt exist. Thats fine. All the people employed in these fields can find different jobs that make the world better instead of worse.
New construction isnt required to build parking. That doesn’t mean they won’t build parking. Instead, they will build the amount of parking they expect to be profitable. This is very reasonable. At a certain point, a given amount of building space will be worth more for car storage than human living space. At this point, the developer will build parking instead of housing. Thus, an appropriate amount of parking is built at an appropriate price for the community, and housing becomes significantly cheaper.
parking violations and impound fees that they didn’t account for.
Yes, because as everyone knows, you lose all your ability to make good parking decisions when you live in housing without attached parking.
“Ohhh nooo, I was going to park a block away and pay the meter, like I do literally every time I drive anywhere, but now I have to leave my car in the middle of the street! I can’t help myself!”
now people can move in, have nowhere to park and expect parking violations and impound fees that they didn’t account for.
IME, there is usually paid parking nearby.
…and ample access to a reasonably well-functioning public transit system.
hopefully. I’ve seen first hand when they don’t have anything outside the ‘express’ first thing and last night of the day.
What we need is less cars, more bikes, and more people walking. Approaching everything from a carcentric point of view is how we got here.
My job, my father’s job, and my fiances job would not exist if not for cars. It would next to impossible for any of us, in 3 different fields, to complete our jobs without cars.
Your family probably wouldn’t exist if not for horses. We don’t need a stable in every newly-built house.
Also, having fewer cars is still a win. We don’t need 0 cars.
Cars are great. Building your whole society around cars is shitty and inefficient. Basically what you are saying is
Even a child can understand that this kind of inefficiency is a waste of valuable time, energy, and resources. If your job requires a car to do (like conducting research in remote wildlands, or picking up garbage), then… great. No one has a problem with that. But if what you are saying is “if society didnt waste billions of dollars requiring people to have cars, then my job wouldnt exist”, then your job shouldnt exist. Thats fine. All the people employed in these fields can find different jobs that make the world better instead of worse.
Right, bcz we have created a society that demands that. Doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.
New construction isnt required to build parking. That doesn’t mean they won’t build parking. Instead, they will build the amount of parking they expect to be profitable. This is very reasonable. At a certain point, a given amount of building space will be worth more for car storage than human living space. At this point, the developer will build parking instead of housing. Thus, an appropriate amount of parking is built at an appropriate price for the community, and housing becomes significantly cheaper.
Yes, because as everyone knows, you lose all your ability to make good parking decisions when you live in housing without attached parking.
“Ohhh nooo, I was going to park a block away and pay the meter, like I do literally every time I drive anywhere, but now I have to leave my car in the middle of the street! I can’t help myself!”