![]() ![]() ![]() The urbanist philosophy you are denigrating isn't that cars are 'bad.' The idea is that they're fine in many contexts, they're just wildly inefficient when being used by too many individual persons in a dense urban environment, such as most of NYC. Also for garbage collection units (to address the rat problem), bicycle parking, al fresco dining, etc. Now, that street is at the maximalist end of this idea, on most NYC streets you could delete maybe 25% of the street parking for individuals and there'd be plenty of room for plumbers. Here's a random example in Innsbruck, Austria, note how much room there is to park contractor vans in front of the various adjacent buildings: Perfect for getting the plumber's van to the front door of properties on such a street. If you got rid of those street parking spots for individuals, (IE, 'cars are bad make things harder for cars') there would be plenty of space for commercial vehicles to do their jobs, and the problem we're discussing would be solved.Ī great solution to this sort of thing is common in the rest of the world, pedestrian-first streets that are permeable to vehicular traffic, offer unstructured temporary parking for necessary uses but does not offer structured overnight street parking for individuals and have a ~15mph limit. Ironically I believe you may be missing the true point you're making - the reason why there's no parking for commercial vehicles who need to be in that area, is that the streets are absolutely just chock full of various individuals' private property - street parked cars. ![]()
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