Display:
Well, Paris had a policy to force new residential buildings to have underground parking spaces, but they've now reversed this and actually forbid new buildings to include underground parkings. This forces residents to either have no car, or to park them on the street (where residential parking has been made extremely cheap and convenient, ie it costs you 50c a day, or 2.50 euros for a full week, on any legitimate parking space).

Lack of parking space has been shown to be the single most important factor driving traffic in Paris, so the city is busy reducing the overall stock inside Paris.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 05:38:51 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I believe the Manhattan rule on residential buildings is a maximum of one parking spot for every five apartments. Commercial parking is disappearing as it gets converted into apartment and office buildings. Even around me non-street parking can be rather expensive - recently saw  one space being advertised for an even $100K plus property taxes - note, this is just a parking space, admittedly it was in Park Slope which is about as expensive as it gets in Brooklyn, but is also purely residential. When I moved to my neighbourhood many of the old carriage houses were being used as garages, now they're rapidly being turned into condos. (The original neighbourhood plan had alternate streets of large homes with carriage houses facing out the back).
by MarekNYC on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 06:26:34 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:
Login
. Make a new account
. Reset password
Occasional Series