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I suggested 1 car per unit. Some one-bedroom units have two people living in them. Lots of people do that when they're first starting out. So that means the other person would have to find an alternate place for his/her car. I'd give an example with my daughter but you guys trashed her the other night, so I'm leaving her out. But. . . an old house converted into two-2 BR units that have a 3 person occupancy limit each could go from having 1-2 cars for the entire building to 6! Most singles, IME, have their own cars. Couples sometimes share.
That depends, some areas there isn't a demand for one parking spot per unit, while others one parking spot per unit is too little.
I made some maps a while back showing car ownership in the Toronto area.
First one is # of cars per adult (aged 16+).
Big difference between the exurban type communities like King City, Caledon, Scugog, etc which had essentially 1 car per adult vs downtown where it was as little as 1 car for every 3 adults. In addition to downtown and the rest of the urban core, some working class inner suburban areas had car ownership rates as low as half those of the exurbs. Even some of the working class middle to outer ring suburbs had rates significantly lower than those of the exurbs. The difference is even larger when you consider the differences in household sizes, so cars/unit might be something like 4 times higher in the exurbs vs downtown.
Next is a map showing the share of car free households. Some suburban areas that had significantly fewer cars/adult than the exurbs still have a very low rate of car free households, so it's more of a case of 1-2 cars for a 2-4 adult household in working class suburbs vs 2 cars for a 2 adult household being the norm in the upper-middle class exurbs.
Although the map shows that in some of the working class inner suburbs, car-free households are not insignificant (20-30%).
In the wealthy inner suburban areas like Yonge & Lawrence and Bloor & Islington, car ownership is higher than in the working class equivalents, despite often having better transit access and downtown jobs.
In NJ there is only a sliver of area where you can easily live without needing a car and that would be a couple of sections of Jersey City and Hoboken. Other than Manhattan, cars are quite common and needed in NYC (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island).
Except for Staten Island, cars are much less common than in any other US city, though some of Boston/Philly/DC/San Francisco comes close. Needed is subjective, but plenty live Queens & Brooklyn without a car.
Except for Staten Island, cars are much less common than in any other US city, though some of Boston/Philly/DC/San Francisco comes close. Needed is subjective, but plenty live Queens & Brooklyn without a car.
A large majority live with cars in Queens.
Percentage of Households with cars in:
Manhattan 23%
Brooklyn 44%
Bronx 46%
Queens 64%
SI 84%
I live in a community where everything, including workplace, is at least five miles away, there aren't any sidewalks or bike paths outside the neighborhood, and there isn't any form of public transportation other than outrageously expensive taxis. Do I rely on my car? Yeah.
That has a lot to do with inner Queens and outer Queens, once you get to the outer parts the transit drops off considerably and then makes using transit very inconvenience for most trips. That is basically the gift Robert Moses gave to Queens and Bronx.
Of the 64% of the households, for example, how many have more than one car?
That depends on what you are looking for, if it is just how many households own cars, then these numbers would be more than enough for that answer.
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