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WhereDaHinkieFlair t1_j6oke3o wrote

Reply to comment by AbsentEmpire in This is why you don't park like an asshole. As if the sanitation workers don't have enough to deal with. They tried for 20 minutes and gave up. Now this entire block has trash sitting here until next time. by Adventurous_Key3647

If its a blight on the city that means its happening everywhere, right? Then if everyone couldn't park illegally then it wouldn't be as simple as parking a few blocks away.

There arent enough parking spots for everybody based off the density, which is why there is so much illegal parking. Its not just laziness.

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NonIdentifiableUser t1_j6omaha wrote

Ok but the solution isn’t to just shrug and accept things like having to walk your kid in the fucking street because some jerkoffs in Dodge Rams or BMWs have blocked three of the 4 crosswalks. Other cities have similar density and don’t have this issue.

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WhereDaHinkieFlair t1_j6ov3da wrote

Ok, but what is the solution? Towing every illegally parked car is just a bandaid, and it is just going to piss off the people who live there and make spots harder to come by everywhere. The only real solution to the problem is either less cars or more parking. Not just "stop being lazy".

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thalience t1_j6p1h84 wrote

Tow aggressively enough, and there will be less cars one way or another.

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AbsentEmpire t1_j6p8nji wrote

Correct, the solution is less demand for cars overall.

The real solution is not just towing enforcement for illegal parking, which needs to happen anyway, but also setting the price to park to match the level of demand.

As you pointed out above there are not enough parking spots in the city, and building more parking isn't realistically possible, nor would it ever solve the problem.

This means that street parking follows a classic economics problem known as the tragedy of the commons. The solution to which is to apply a price metric that reflects the supply and demand levels. The solution to not enough free street parking to make parking cost more money until the price results in the demand level matching or slightly falling below the level of supply.

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Little_Noodles t1_j6ouvrs wrote

You’re not entirely wrong, but my neighbors up the street regularly park dangerously into the intersection when there is ample and abundant parking literally just on the other side of the other end of the block (so, block and a half to two blocks walk maximum).

Neighbors on this end of my block meanwhile, park in front of curbcuts to avoid walking across the street when they can see parking half a block away.

Some people that are currently fucking up would make better choices if presented with good options. But some people are actually that lazy and disinterested in their neighbors’s safety and well-being

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