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Author	Scunnered20
Comment	U/CanadianDraven If you take nearly any random tenemented street in Glasgow and sit and calculate how many households there are, then compare that to the number of on street car parking spaces out front, it becomes clear just how ridiculous the constant calls for more parking provision are. And how ridiculous the idea is that we ought to somehow provide parking spaces for everyone. Like, it's normal to have a street of 3 storey tenements have say 100 households, but maybe space for 20 cars along the length of the street, at a push. Again I think there's a perception / conditioning thing at play here. We see cars literally everywhere. They're arguably the most visually dominant feature of any street, certainly at eye level anyway, to the extent that we even sort of mentally blank them out. Certainly to the extent that we don't really give consideration to the space they take up. Lots of people seem to regularly assume we need 1:1 parking provision, when in reality that's not ever been the norm in existing built up parts of Glasgow. Nor should it be, as even if you somehow find the space to build the parking spaces (likely at cost of other uses of the space), all you're doing is inviting that many cars to use those roads. You solve your parking problem, but you immediately create an even worse congestion and road safety problem.
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Created	Sun 5th Nov 2023 10:59am
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U/CanadianDraven

If you take nearly any random tenemented street in Glasgow and sit and calculate how many households there are, then compare that to the number of on street car parking spaces out front, it becomes clear just how ridiculous the constant calls for more parking provision are. And how ridiculous the idea is that we *ought to* somehow provide parking spaces for everyone.

Like, it's normal to have a street of 3 storey tenements have say 100 households, but maybe space for 20 cars along the length of the street, at a push.

Again I think there's a perception / conditioning thing at play here.

We see cars literally everywhere. They're arguably the most visually dominant feature of any street, certainly at eye level anyway, to the extent that we even sort of mentally blank them out. Certainly to the extent that we don't really give consideration to the space they take up.

Lots of people seem to regularly assume we need 1:1 parking provision, when in reality that's not ever been the norm in existing built up parts of Glasgow. Nor should it be, as even if you somehow find the space to build the parking spaces (likely at cost of other uses of the space), all you're doing is inviting that many cars to use those roads. You solve your parking problem, but you immediately create an even worse congestion and road safety problem.