I hate this and think it’s ideas like this that are dangerous. Thinking like this is discriminating against lower socioeconomic status individuals. This works well for the commuter going to downtown SF for their 9-5; taking weekend trips with a zip car. What about people who don’t work 9-5, or have a job that is not an easy bart hop away. Ideas like this are just has bad as the authors interpretation of past laws.
Just adding to my opinion. I might be totally wrong but it always felt to me that the Bay Area suffers from the problem of doing things that feel good but don’t improve outcomes for people. Regional transit in the Bay Area is pretty miserable unless your destination is near a BART line. Don’t get me wrong, it can work but it’s fairly limiting. For those with higher disposable income it’s no issue at all. Take Bart and grab a Lyft or take a Lyft from the start. For those with Les disposable income it can be incredibly difficult, take Bart then a bus transfer, perhaps some final walking. It can be a nontrivial ordeal.
It feels good to say cars are bad and implement parking maximums, but similar to the Neighborhood preservation rules in Berkeley, it’s really negatively impacting those without wealth.
> For those with higher disposable income it’s no issue at all.
Not for those with small children. Unless you have a private chauffeur, transporting a family to somewhere without parking that is poorly served by transit is a pain. And if you’re going somewhere where traffic patterns make light rail favorable but you need last-mile transportation that isn’t well-served by transit, I guess you need two chauffeurs so that you send one ahead to meet you at the fair end of the train?
My theory has always been that, if policy makers want people to use cars less, they should make the alternatives better instead of making cars worse.
You are right and I was ignoring that angle entirely. The last mile is still an issue for Bart. I was mostly fine taking Bart as a young male but I don’t think it’s as great for women and I would never take my daughter on it as it stands today.
I also agree on your theory. We should not be making cars worse but the alternative better. That should happen first. We can implement parking maximums but that is not going to fix the roadblocks on getting better public transit.
I never said otherwise. Parking maximums does not make transit more accessible. You will have the same problem in the Bay Area that has persisted for decades, different opinions from different cities and the inability to build any kind of new regional transit.
My point is that rules like this impact the lower socioeconomic individuals.
