Giving people a place to live is more important than giving them a place to park, especially in a area with a bus system named North American Transit System of the Year.
once residential buildings go up, there won’t be anywhere to park
The pictured development includes a parking lot.
The development is also surrounded by parking lots.
The parking garage will be built later as mentioned in the article, and there aren’t any open parking lots in the area. The South and West sides are blocked by railroad tracks and the Columbia river, the East side is blocked by the freeway, and the North side is the very tip of a residential neighborhood.
I agree housing is more important than transportation, but you still need transportation in order to work and pay for this place. This isn’t going be a free shelter.
You have a point with most of these (I’ll concede on the ones I don’t mention) but East is not a freeway but a street with zebra crossings and a roundabout. North is not a residential neighborhood; Aria Apartments is the only residential I can see and the lot North of that is free.
And still, if you have enough money to get a car, you should have enough money for a jacket, a bike, and/or train tickets.
Yes and no on your first point. The longer a car spends looking for parking, the more pollution it is dumpping into the residential area. And the stress of trying to find parking isn’t great for people’s health either. There is a balance to be had. But I don’t think they did the numbers to figure this one out. Theynof course could just get lucky and hit the balance. Who knows.
If you settle down for something as big as housing and will bring a car, you’ve hashed out where to park already. The true solution to environmental issues is a bike.
You would think, but the number of people I have heard complain about the parking situation where they live and how they had no idea it was so bad…
People just don’t usually think of such details. Same with storage space in a house. It looks bigger without the storage space, so there is less and less storage space in houses. Most people are not detail oriented.
Giving people a place to live is more important than giving them a place to park, especially in a area with a bus system named North American Transit System of the Year.
The pictured development includes a parking lot.
The development is also surrounded by parking lots.
The parking garage will be built later as mentioned in the article, and there aren’t any open parking lots in the area. The South and West sides are blocked by railroad tracks and the Columbia river, the East side is blocked by the freeway, and the North side is the very tip of a residential neighborhood.
I agree housing is more important than transportation, but you still need transportation in order to work and pay for this place. This isn’t going be a free shelter.
You have a point with most of these (I’ll concede on the ones I don’t mention) but East is not a freeway but a street with zebra crossings and a roundabout. North is not a residential neighborhood; Aria Apartments is the only residential I can see and the lot North of that is free.
And still, if you have enough money to get a car, you should have enough money for a jacket, a bike, and/or train tickets.
Yes and no on your first point. The longer a car spends looking for parking, the more pollution it is dumpping into the residential area. And the stress of trying to find parking isn’t great for people’s health either. There is a balance to be had. But I don’t think they did the numbers to figure this one out. Theynof course could just get lucky and hit the balance. Who knows.
If you settle down for something as big as housing and will bring a car, you’ve hashed out where to park already. The true solution to environmental issues is a bike.
You would think, but the number of people I have heard complain about the parking situation where they live and how they had no idea it was so bad… People just don’t usually think of such details. Same with storage space in a house. It looks bigger without the storage space, so there is less and less storage space in houses. Most people are not detail oriented.