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Originally Posted by PDXDENSITY
Not car hate. Incoherent planning. They are going to put in tons of car parking in a place that should be planned as low car, near a transit nexus.
The solution to traffic is not more car capacity. That induces demand. Parking or highway expansion. The solution is to maintain what we have and strategically put on diets roads to help pedestrians and bikes. Then we need to realign the budget to heavily invest in transit and imposing density along transit corridors.
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So have you, personally, chosen not to own a car? This anti-car crusade is shortsighted and impractical. Walk around Division Street and see all of the recent development that included absolutely no parking. The argument was that none of the tenants would need cars - they'd use Tri-Met and bikes to get where they needed to go. Guess what? It turns out that they all do own cars, and now those cars are taking up all of the street parking of the surrounding neighborhood.