Comments by "" (@josephfisher426) on "Should Cities Get Rid of On-Street Parking?" video.

  1.  @VillainousHanacha  That's definitely the trend. I'm not sure how it passes safety muster. If there are a lot of parked cars, visibility of the bike is obscured.
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  2. From a landuse perspective, parking garages are preferable to street parking if you're planning anew. If you already have the pavement, and you don't need a bus lane on that street, there's more to lose than to gain by taking away the parking. The problem, even in Europe, is that there is a significant population, generally of the people with more money to spend, who derive virtually all of their transportation via personal vehicles---and very few cities can thrive with a market that doesn't include those people. I don't think the monkeying around with the parceling out of street space that seems to be currently fashionable costs a lot... it doesn't keep cities from investing in train lines, which is ultimately what is needed, to replace car commuting. But I don't see where it helps either. If you divert people away, they may well stay away.
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  3.  @amunak_  I agree---there's no reason why I want to take a bike on a busy commercial street, at least not for more than a block or two. Whether or not there's a bike lane, it's much safer on a residential street.
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  4.  @tthomas184  It's an issue for turns across the bike lane, which is where most legitimate accidents will happen (as opposed to acts of negligence by people who don't stay in their lanes). At present it doesn't really matter because the bike lanes in question are not much used, but if they were crowded comparably to the car lanes the problem would become noticeable.
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  5.  @VillainousHanacha  In my city they also "invest" in tons of flexi-posts along with the painted lines, and where there are bus stops, they put in temporary ramps for the bike lane. I wonder how the cost of all that would compare to making a curb out of wheel stops...
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  6. That's also very common in older US cities, particularly the parts that used to be suburban (though many of those lots have driveways; mine doesn't).
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