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Car ownership in New York may have jumped in the last few months, but the big issue will be where do they all get parked at night? Other research shows that car ownership is limited by night time parking capacity in residential areas. This is why car ownership in Kensington & Chelsea is so low, especially when income driven car ownership models say it should be high. Hence DfT has been forecasting at least doubling of London’s car ownership for decades (while the reality is that it has been declining).
@quinlet
Portland, Oregon and Oslo both have been progressively reducing city parking spot numbers, and this has been the most effective way for cities to reduce car use, both for residents and those commuting in by car, and nudging both groups to take transit more. Unfortunately, in most North American cities, zoning bylaws require minimum numbers of parking spaces to be created for new developments, even downtown. So whilst skyscrapers being constructed add density, they have also attracted more car commuters. Fortunately, some pioneering cities are realizing this, like Edmonton (Alberta, not North London), which has removed parking minimums.
I’ve no idea about Edmonton (north London) but other Boroughs in London are controlling parking in new build developments. Virtually all the new housing developments on the Isle of Dogs (and there have been thousands of new homes added in the last few years) have minimal on-site parking – plus the planning permission on these new blocks includes a clause that the residents of these buildings will not qualify for a street parking permit.
It hasn’t gone smoothly in every case. A new social house block near me (over 100 units) went up a couple of years ago and it appears that many of the newly arriving ,occupants either (1) weren’t told about the lack of parking provision or (2) didn’t read the small print of their tenancy documents – resulting in a rash of illegal parking affecting other nearby developments for a few months.
@LBM, Island Dweller
Commercial parking provision in London has been subject to maxima since the 1976 GLDP. In central London the maximum for commercial developments is 1 parking space per 1,500 square metres. Khan’s latest London Plan sought to extend and strengthen this approach into outer London, but that was rejected by the Government (whose real objective, to get all parking maxima out, was not achieved).