> No one wants to be cruising a highway in a Fiat 500, feeling vulnerable as everyone else lords above them in Tahoes, Expeditions, and Escalades.
Actually, it's more that I don't want to be cruising the highway in a Fiat 500, full stop. Once you've experienced long trips in a large comfortable car, going back is _very_ hard.
Parking is impossible in San Francisco. It hasn’t helped.
Only an insane person would try to take the bus.
The Bart takes literally one line through the city. Doesn’t connect to Caltrain in any sensible way.
You can’t buy a monthly transit pass because some moron added a clause to the Bart authorization law requiring every segment to pay for itself which means it’ll never be possible to get a combined muni / Bart / Caltrain pass.
You could bike I suppose if you have a death wish. No route through SF is safe for bikes. Try it.
What’s left? Leave I suppose.
Oh, but if you want to actually fix it. Recognize that people need to move from A to B for several important things in their lives (work, groceries, healthcare, friends to name a few) and make viable alternatives to driving. You actually have to do the work to craft an alternative.
"Until the advent of automated ticket machines, many garages were controlled by the mafia. Grabar takes us on a tour of parking’s underbelly, including the Philadelphia airport where attendants collected between $3 million and $7 million in cash a year in the 1990s by underreporting long-stay parking. Owning parking was a good way to launder money and cheaply get a piece of downtown real estate to develop later. Parking was a tough business, and it has been routinely made macho in popular culture. Garages are unloved parts of the urban landscape, and they produce an unsettling feeling when inside. Deep Throat set up his meeting with Bob Woodward in one, and Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered in the subterranean garage of the Dallas Police Headquarters. Yet, despite the suspicion that garages are where bad things happen, most cities want to build more of them rather than phase them out."
Is this a joke? Parking garages are bad because the mafia owned some, Bob Woodward interviewed a source in one and Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in another?
Like, the mafia built a lot of children's playgrounds and playgrounds have been the site of many horrifying crimes. So what?
It might be true that we should reduce parking space but this argument structure is insulting and contemptible.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadActually, it's more that I don't want to be cruising the highway in a Fiat 500, full stop. Once you've experienced long trips in a large comfortable car, going back is _very_ hard.
If long trips (> 1hr) are frequent then you want (arguably need) something very different
Only an insane person would try to take the bus. The Bart takes literally one line through the city. Doesn’t connect to Caltrain in any sensible way. You can’t buy a monthly transit pass because some moron added a clause to the Bart authorization law requiring every segment to pay for itself which means it’ll never be possible to get a combined muni / Bart / Caltrain pass.
You could bike I suppose if you have a death wish. No route through SF is safe for bikes. Try it.
What’s left? Leave I suppose.
Oh, but if you want to actually fix it. Recognize that people need to move from A to B for several important things in their lives (work, groceries, healthcare, friends to name a few) and make viable alternatives to driving. You actually have to do the work to craft an alternative.
Is this a joke? Parking garages are bad because the mafia owned some, Bob Woodward interviewed a source in one and Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in another?
Like, the mafia built a lot of children's playgrounds and playgrounds have been the site of many horrifying crimes. So what?
It might be true that we should reduce parking space but this argument structure is insulting and contemptible.