GT Releases 25 Year Vision of Downtown Atlanta with Autonomous Cars, Removed Parking, Vibrancy (Conyers: hotels, transfer)

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by roadtrip75

I meant the quality of human capital, not the quantity. Intelligence, homogeneity, education, etc.

We can start by doing a better job at retaining students from Tech, GSU, Emory, etc.

[cqholt]

Design your own street for AVs, dedicated transit lanes, protected bike lanes, etc.

https://www.citylab.com/transportati...utm_source=twb

[tikigod311]

Figured I'd go ahead and create one to save yall the time

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by tikigod311

Figured I'd go ahead and create one to save yall the time

Is... is that parking literally up to the buildings' foundations?

[brown_dog_us]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Design your own street for AVs, dedicated transit lanes, protected bike lanes, etc.

https://www.citylab.com/transportati...utm_source=twb

Where is the parking?!?!?!?

[cqholt]

...we know that cars cruising for on-street parking in American downtowns account for roughly 1,825 vehicle-miles traveled, for each curb space, every year—two-thirds the length of the country. We know that parking covers an astonishing percentage of urban land area (14 percent in housing-crunched Los Angeles county); that parking inflates the cost of housing and goods because developers fold it into property costs; and that when the city foots the bill for “free” parking, it’s a public subsidy to the affluent—non-car owning people are gifted no such real estate.

Through real-world case studies and research projects, Shoup makes three central recommendations for cities: eliminate planning codes that require developers to build off-street parking, charge the correct prices for on-street parking throughout the day, and spend parking meter revenue to make visible improvements on metered streets.

https://www.citylab.com/transportati...-shoup/560876/

[brown_dog_us]

Through real-world case studies and research projects, Shoup makes three central recommendations for cities: eliminate planning codes that require developers to build off-street parking, charge the correct prices for on-street parking throughout the day, and spend parking meter revenue to make visible improvements on metered streets.

Winner.

[Need4Camaro]

What about existing garages?

Besides all in all I doubt this will ever get traction unless there was already a fairly strong transit system in the metro.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

What about existing garages?

Besides all in all I doubt this will ever get traction unless there was already a fairly strong transit system in the metro.

The article is about using our existing parking smarter. We have an oversupply of off-street parking, existing parking garages would not be going away but a parking fee (to fund transit projects) should be leveraged. Metering on-street spaces and using the funds collected to reinvest in the commercial districts where the meters are located.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by cqholt

The article is about using our existing parking smarter. We have an oversupply of off-street parking, existing parking garages would not be going away but a parking fee (to fund transit projects) should be leveraged. Metering on-street spaces and using the funds collected to reinvest in the commercial districts where the meters are located.

Typically parking garages allow masses of vehicles to be parked near a "hot spot" location (where by hotspot I mean either a mall, shopping district, business or resential apartments / condo's / towers, hotels, or even an employer.) where as city-wide there are probably several unused parking meters, I can gauruntee almost none of them are near any hot spot. When I drive to the Capital building for example I can never find a place to park anywhere on MLK, Mitchell, Central, or Courtland... To park within the vicinity I usually have to pay at a lot...where as sure there may be street parking available somewhere in Atlanta... it doesn't necessarily mean its where I need to be... The same principal holds true in Atlantic Station, there's no way Im going to be able to parallel park around the vicinity, typically I have to go underground and park

If you wanted to push the idea of using parking to pay for transit, maybe it would be better for the city to buy those lots and use some of the funds toward transit instead.