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How should parking be priced in college towns? (urbanists.social)

submitted 2 months ago by benfulton@urbanists.social to c/bloomington_in@midwest.social

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How should parking be priced in college towns?

"These places also sometimes experience surges in demand for access to the central area that are seasonal or otherwise cyclical. In the summer, they are surreal—all or most of the amenities intended for a larger, denser population with far fewer people competing for them. Football Saturdays present the opposite problem: the city’s population may double half a dozen days a year"

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https://gregshill.substack.com/p/how-should-parking-be-priced-in-college

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[–] Marrekoo@urbanists.social 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@benfulton @bloomington_in

From a Dutch perspective, this question is non existent. Students do not own cars. They ride bicycles. Which brings about other questions on parking those vehicles, but that is an order of magnitude less in terms of surface area needed.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, parking pricing really is the wrong question. The first ten miles around any campus should be extremely walkable and have infrastructure for bikes and shuttles.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

How I long to live in a society that spends a ton of money on a super nice parking garage for bikes that is under a water fountain. I've seen the vids and it's gorgeous. Too cold, though. I'll find out how cycling is accepted in a different country that isn't the USA if the orange bad 2.0 happens.