How Much Should a Parking Space Cost?
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Which cities have the most expensive parking spaces, both on the street and in garages/lots? And what is the right price to charge for parking? This video answers those questions!
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It is mind-blowing to me that people would spend $344 to park their car in New York City during business hours.
These are the same people who want a hand out from the government when times are bad.
I’m always amazed when people drive into NYC
seems cheaper to hire a full time chauffeur
I didn’t expect to see you here, Mr. Beat.
Some people are so wealthy that they don’t even notice that amount of money. And a lot of them live in NYC.
In Germany, it's common for businesses to share private parking in malls. If you stay there for a designated time and buy at their store, upon check-out, you can give the cashier your parking ticket so they annul the fee on it. So the idea is that only customers enjoy free parking.
In some cases, parking aside the streets is even cheaper than buying a bus ticket, but you're lucky if you find a vacant space.
The reason why Tokyo isn't on this list is because on-street parking is illegal, with temporary exceptions for service vehicles
good context
On street parking is legal in Tokyo. There are parking bays and meters like any other country. Are you thinking of overnight street parking?
And you can't buy a car if you don't have place to park it.
Hoping this will come to my city.
It's not illegal but it's pretty rare. You definitely don't see it most places. This is true generally in Japan.
It’s crazy to me that a parking spot in New York makes more than the hourly rate of a human.
I mean you're paying to inconvenience hundreds of other people and/or waste space that could be used to house people, so I get it
@@SlurMaster9000
It's an inconvenience when not every single centimeter of a city is built up?
@@MrCmon113 No. But I would rather have a small public park for the local people to enjoy than 50 extra parking spaces for people from out of town.
@@MrCmon113it's an inconvenience when a large amount of space that lots of people would want to use is being taken up by a stationary object for several hours.
Supply and demand. There is more demand for extremely limited city-center parking than there is for the seemingly endless supply of convenience store clerks. (I don't mean to demean convenience store clerks, but to highlight the disparity.)
Working at a parking office for two years is what orange-pilled me even before NJB existed.
When I lived in the Boston suburbs and worked in the Financial District, I never drove in. 3 days of parking would be more expensive than my monthly transit pass ... not to mention the stress of driving in rush hour with BOSTON DRIVERS!
And parking in downtown Boston was comparatively cheap ... $30 a work day.
Driving in Boston is nightmarish
I used to work in the financial district too. Thank god I don't work in Boston anymore.
I'm curious what is it about Boston drivers that give them so much notoriety (or should I say motoriety)? When I went to BU I didn't have a car, and every time I revisit Boston I take the T or walk, just like back then. I do recall some seemingly fast drivers along Comm. Ave, but those were probably mostly impatient, risk-taking students. So are bad drivers citywide the result of too many students and clueless tourists, or a rush-rush work culture, an ingrained defensive driving mentality, or too many one-way roads? I imagine it's a combination of those.
@@DashingPartyCrasher Boston is a difficult city to drive in, as the layout was set before there were cars. Streets are narrow, crowded, and navigation is difficult. As a result, many drivers make sudden turns, speed up randomly, almost overshoot their turn. and so on.
Plus, there's an attitude that using turn signals is giving information to the enemy.
I would call it an ingrained *offensive* driving mentality.
I lived in the Boston suburbs for 15 years. Non-rush hour suburban driving was fine, but I refused to drive in Boston or Cambridge. And I had no need to ... the transit system is far from perfect, but I was able to get everywhere I needed to go.
Depends on where you live specifically and whether or not you're going in by yourself. Pre-pandemic, I have always preferred to drive in. Plenty of places nearby with monthly parking around $350-$400, pretty sweet deal if you ask me. Parking at MBTA station is $9 and ticket is about $2.25(assuming you're on monthly T pass). The extra to get away from all the people on the T, and potential MBTA hiccup, i would say money well spent. The monthly parking allows you to visit on the weekend conveniently, so there is additional saving from weekend activities.
In Bucharest you can pay up to 30$ per hour. It’s cheaper to get your car detailed than to park :))))
Adevarat! 5 Lei pe ora inseamna 30 de dolari daca esti sarac!
Hey, might as well get a clean car with it.
I said "up to 30 usd an hour". not from. there are also free parking lots for hybrids and electrics, but the discussion was about the most expensive places. I invite you to the parking lot near Sanador Buzești, famous for its high prices. and as you can see, in this comments section, there are a lot of people that add to the story, with places in their country that are more expensive. add, not make fun of. disappointing. bye. @@alexandrunechifor
Well Romania needs to get this money because of corruption...
As a Romanian i just park on the curb side for free, no fee! 😂
we make the same joke in Taiwan
My dad will do anything for free parking, excluding just walking/biking/public transportation.
my dad touches me 😢
Good man!
Yeah, I'm just gonna walk 50km, take a bedframe and some cupboards on my back and then walk 50km back. Brilliant plan.
@@MrCmon113you act like you do that's daily. I swear car lovers cant go a foot anywhere, without their huge car.
IMO, the most expensive parking space isn't determined by the price someone pays to park there. It's determined by the opportunity cost of what that ~150 square feet could generate if it was used for something productive, like an outdoor dining shed.
Even if it’s not turned into an active revenue space, there’s still a larger expense for that space to the consumers, businesses & city than is ever recovered by taxes, fees or fines. Turning it into a protected bike lane wouldn’t create a revenue source but it would increase the number of people who would spend more at the shops along these stretches than the cars & people in them do, as well as being more pleasant for pedestrians, regardless how they arrive to the area.
though its difficult to make use of the land how its spread now instead of what it could be used if the city were designed without it in the first place
this is actually how nyc has $340billion worth of FREE on street parking
not even including the metered or garage parking
If it didn’t generate that demand and that price to compete with other services, then that space would theoretically be better off being bought by something else that’d make higher returns.
@@ac1455 it’s okay to have space between the front of buildings that aren’t owned by the adjacent property owners so everyone can access the buildings. Otherwise it’d be an open mall.
Just because the new use doesn’t make revenue either doesn’t mean it’s a bad use of common space.
Interesting to see the different strategies. My city currently plans to do a massive change in that too: Currently the just 600 onstreet parking spots are cheaper than any parking garage and always filled to the brim. On the other end, the parking garages combine for well over 3000 spots and have much more than those 600 spots free at any given time, even the saturdays before christmas.
So the city now wants to curb down on onstreet parking: making it more expensive than a parking garage, turn several spots into residential and loading only and completely remove problematic parking spots. On street parking will basically only stay, if it's already on the route to a parking garage and doesn't hinder the flow of traffic (meaning primarily bike traffic, which already makes the vast majority within the city center).
In Hong Kong, hourly rates can easily top $60. I know a spot in Kowloon that charges $12 for just 15 minutes
I live in New York City but I’m still stunned by those NYC numbers. Parking garages have always been exorbitant here, but I didn’t know it had gotten that high for just two hours. Incredible.
It makes sense though. In Amsterdam 1m² costs €8000 and depending on use another €240 per m² (on average) per year in taxes. A standard parking space in Europe is 5x2.3m or about 11.5m². So that means €92,000 in upfront cost for the parking space + €2,760 per year in taxes. Assuming 10 years of operating that space costs the owner €32 a day to just own on its own. Take a 60% occupancy rate and they would have to charge at least €55 a day to break even. But it isn't just that, it needs parking meters or an actual garage and that easily goes into multiple times that a day + depreciation and maintenance. Anything on top of that is just pure profit. And supply and demand means a private owner will raise prices until it impacts their profits.
I am sure NYC has higher ground prices and taxes so $20 an hour starts looking pretty reasonable.
Car parking is just one more subsidy to cars that is in no way covered by road taxes that car owners forget about.
should be higher, especially during work hours
That's because parking here is a complete monopoly, supported by politicians.
Politicians want parking to be expensive to get back at cat owners and don't care that it just gucks over the middle class for the benefit of a few rich guys
In The Hague, Netherlands, there is actually a flat 50 euro rate to park your car in certain places. That means that even if you park for 10 minutes, you still pay 50 euros. This would make it much more expensive than any cities discussed here!
Yes, parking in Scheveningen sounds like fun.
That's nothing. Yesterday I paid a flat $5 to park my car for 30 seconds. That comes out to a rate of $600 per hour!
That sounds awful
@@SlurMaster9000Where did you pay this at?
@@SlurMaster9000I would also like to know. You could reply to the other guy. I'll try to check back.
Businesses should view public transit as the carrot and parking prices as the stick.
I agree.
This video was very educational to me. It's obvious in hindsight, but I never thought of paid parking as a congestion tax/price. Even if the city broken even to cover the cost of collecting the money and paying workers, it would still make sense to use paid parking.
To be honest, now that I can see street paid parking as a congestion tax to decongest, I don't feel so bad about it.
@@eugenetswong It is not just congestion. Los Angeles county has over 200 square miles of parking, more than four San Franciscos in area. Think of how much of that land can be used more productivity.
@@barryrobbins7694Yeah.
By the way, I hope that I don't come across as wanting more lanes made so that we could have more parking. I'm talking about just using it more efficiently.
@@eugenetswong I understand your point. There will be a need for parking in the foreseeable future, but the trend is towards less parking. There is just a big need for transportation alternatives to cars.
Yes, it is sometimes hard for people to understand each other in the internet.
@@jondhoe7023 Los Angeles County has over 200 square miles of parking (more than four times the area of all of San Francisco). Imagine how many businesses could fit in an area half that size. Businesses need customers. Cars don’t buy anything. Better public transit and walkable cities are what is needed. Some of the most desirable neighborhoods in a city are typically walkable.
The issue with reducing parking is that you can't do that without improvements in public transportation without making it a worst of both worlds situation where parking is scarce and public transportation is inadequate. We already see that in much of NYC and SF where it seems like there simply isn't a good way to get around. For example, in Flushing, Queens there is no subway service except from the west meaning that anyone coming from any other direction has to travel by bus (or the LIRR, but that is primarily designed for commuting) or drive. The issue is that their is scarce parking and the buses are slow and unreliable, especially outside of peak hours.
There’s definitely a difference between charging for on-street parking based on supply and demand versus removing on-street parking. Over time, reducing parking demand & allowing those spaces to be reallocated to active uses (bicyclists, pedestrians, delivery & pickup/drop off) should be an objective. By having a transition plan, many of the growing pains can be minimized.
During that time, we should also consider how we offer goods & services to our neighborhoods. No easy answers but our current systems are broken for all but the behemoth corporations.
@@ttopero: I feel like charging based on supply and demand and removing on street parking both have serious issues that punish poor people unless they improve public transportation as well.
Poor people often live in spaces most impacted by traffic noise and pollution. They also often don't own a car as they are expensive. While I'm all for alternatives to cars and believe we should fight poverty harder, I doubt there is much harm to social justice by these measures.
@@Jacksparrow4986: Many of them do have cars and would have to chose between taking that car and struggling to find parking or taking a bus and have it take 4x as long. I would know because that used to be me.
That's not technically true even if you assume that everyone will drive. There are strategies that individuals can employ to reduce their parking usage. People can carpool with friends as opposed to having each individual bringing their own car. People can also be encouraged to finish their business more quickly, reducing the amount of time that they consume a parking spot. And except in the most sprawling suburbs, walking is an option for at least some fraction of visitors.
City Nerd spends a ton of time on how off-street parking and parking minimums have gutted cities. We have not so much built our cities around cars as having bulldozed our cities to provide parking. It’s a vicious cycle of cheap parking inducing car travel, sprawling our cities and making cycling and transit impractical and dangerous.
Having some parking space at semi affordable prices can be a huge advantage for a city.
The lack and expense of parking has often dissuaded me, my friends and my family from going to the city. I really mostly go to get wasted. And if I wasn't young and fit I wouldn't take trains and busses at all. Those are horrible if you're old or otherwise disabled.
Why can't you take the bus or train if you're older disabled? People in Europe and Asia seem to manage it all the time. @@MrCmon113
Toronto is facing a massive budget shortfall, so city council decided to remove the cap on on-street parking prices, allowing the board of city agency Green P (the Toronto Parking Authority) to charge whatever they want. Hopefully with our progressive mayor and more progressive council, we will see these prices climb well above the $4-5 CAD/hr we have
As it should. Anything less and they are probably making a loss.
In my city in NZ, on street parking is free for 2 hours (to attract shoppers), but then after 2 hours is $8/hour (to prevent employees using them all, all day). Moving your car every 2 hours isn't a work around, the parked cars are tracked by council workers driving cars around tracking license plates.
We have a few of those free 2hr sections in WLG, but within the city centre is just standard parking fees when you arrive. Even so, it's real easy to just park on the 2hr parking on the sides and go about your day - no one ever checks haha. Haven't paid for parking in 8 years.
Great data rich video and a great follow up to your previous parking study video. Love it! ❤
Interesting to see Drammen mentioned on a list next to London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Moscow. That city is ... how to put it ... the Norwegian equivalent to something like Southampton, just smaller and without the charm. It's two half-cities separated by a river, each half leaving the job of making a decent cityscape to the other. It's somehow entirely on brand for it to be world-class in one single respect, expensive street parking.
I had never heard of Drammen so thank you for painting a picture 😁
In my city there are nine parking garages and six of them are owend by private company that cooprates with the city to provide parking. We also have a system that is designed to help drivers find available parking spaces by providing real-time information about the occupancy of parking facilities.
Such a beautiful man! Thanks for the great video qt.
Got to love the reference to 'crusing' for a parking spaces. In the 80's and 90's in Chicago, this was a sport to find free parking, especially near Wrigley Field or downtown around Lower Wacker Drive.
My city's private road-side parking company hired land surveyors to make maps of various streets, detailing entries and all traffic signs in order to optimise parking spaces. With new scanning technologies, it's becoming very cheap and fast to map out kilometers of streets.
Is that a little owl traveling south at 6:39? What a hoot, love it :)
Great video my friend 😃👍
I work in the city and one time years ago I drove to work. Circled the block and wasted like half an hour before a I gave up and parked in a garage. Paid around $35-40 and thought to myself never again (this is on top of tolls and gas). Sadly driving from suburbs into city DOES make sense when you have a group of people, because splitting even $60 parking between 4 can be cheaper than a train ticket for each.
Yes, it seems like it would be good to introduce something like Park and Rides in your city, so you can park somewhere on the periphery and take a group ticket for transit into the city.
I love these videos and I have been watching them for years. I have an idea for a couple of shows. Can you please make rural beautiful episodes and talk about stuff like unincorporated cities.
We did a road trip that ended in NYC where we stayed for 4 nights 3 blocks away from the lower entrances to central park, and 1 block from the Hudson. We only had the car in the city for 4 hours until I returned it to the rental company... But I couldn't believe that street parking was totally free on the road outside our accommodation. I was expecting it to be a minimum of $10 per hour, in a place where a midsized apartment costs $4million. Build on the street parking and maybe the land cost goes down a little bit.
Brisbane resident here. That we’re in the Top 10 most expensive places to park off-street in the world doesn’t surprise me. The cost of driving in and parking in the CBD is insane; I can’t believe people still do it.
The few times I have driven into the CBD (all thanks to go to hourly Sunday bus services where I used to live), I was happy to park on the street (free) about 1km away and walk in to my destination - it’s hard to find street parks, you had to pay and I didn’t mind the walk!
Not surprising as well for me as I live in Sydney, the second most expensive place to park in the world, I usually park my car 1-3 km before going to the city by bus (the place I park at has buses every 5-10 minutes everyday) as paid parking in Sydney is deadly expensive, except on the weekends if you already know where the cheap all day parking is.
San Francisco has continued with demand based pricing, and there's a single parking spot that pulled in $17,000 last year.
That's only $46 per day, not impressive, Amsterdam is doing $70.000 per spot!
Crazy prices. In city center of Munich Germany, I pay 2$ per hour or 11$ for the whole day on street and 3-5$ per hour in a parking garage. Paying prices like 55$ per hour in NYC sounds insane.
How expensive are the fines for on street parking without a ticket? In Munich I have to pay 20$ for parking without a ticket on street. Since I the chances of getting caught are not that high, I often don't buy a ticket and on average it is cheaper to park without a ticket than buying one everytime.
You should hold a debate against John Phillips of 790 KABC! He's the ultimate car-addicted suburbanite NIMBY, and is completely obsessed with parking.
In Sweden you commonly pay with an app on your phone. That makes it possible for shops to have parking lots where you can leave the car for a limited time but starts paying after that runs out. That prioritises the customers as people who would use the place as any public parking most times looks for other, cheaper parking lots. A quick rotation of cars reduces the necessity of huge parking areas.
It's mind blowing that so many people not only deal with terrible traffic but also exorbitant costs to drive in the city with the best transit in the US.
In most on street parking in the UK you pay between certain hours and outside of them it's free, which is like a super easy method of variable pricing.
6:39 Look on the left, that's a very odd looking car..
great video and I'm sure when this system is implemented with charging drivers it also dictates the numbers of vehicles in the streets.
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I did appreciate the animation, actually. Thank you for the effort that you put into this.
Thank you also for showing that parking costs can be used as a congestion tax. I never thought of it that way. It is a much more efficient way of taxing people to decongest, and it helps the right people.
I definitely agree with Sydney. I parked one morning for about four hours in the CBD and I paid almost $100!
Do a video on how you would redevelop land that was used for a now-demolished (or soon-to-be demolished) sports venue (i.e. Oakland Coliseum).
5:00 I think what you meant to say was that the car owning majority can choose to subsidize parking at below market rates.
On my way to NYC from New England , I often left my car in the Golden Coast. Every commuter rail train station from New Haven , before crossing NY State Line , has an open adjoining parking lot.
I paid the per diem rate @ $5.00 into an envelope , dropped at the unattended Guard Check through the slot , and took my train to the city. Peace of mind.
Next to the London Stock Exchange data centre, on-street, in the City of London (can't tell you the address), was GBP 16 an hour when I last checked a server there in 2018.
When is your next livestream?
Fascinating.
I have been pondering this dilemma. And in Dubai of all places where I was interviewed for work I had an Eureka moment. I had an interview in Arenco tower google it.
Now whoever designed the tower was a genius when it comes to parking. Ground floor is for businesses, next 10 or how many (I forgot it was years) was for parking and then there were office spaces. Ample parking for everyone! Why not have new buildings apply the same design?
Imagine a residential house. Below is a noisy street with pedestrians, pubs, shops, restaurants, bars. As you can probably imagine a pretty big problem if you want to sleep at night.
But if between you and the street is 10 floors of parking? And if the parking of course has the right paneling so sound doesnt bounce. Even if you live on the lowest available floor it is quiet. And as an added bonus the heat evaporating from the ground during hot summer months is way down.
It is a win win win for all. Drivers are happy because they get to park, people are happy because they have their shops and businesses, residents are happy because their view is better and they have a much better time living.
I am not saying demolish cities. I am saying new tall buildings should be build by this design method.
Can confirm Brisbane being on the list. I parked in the Myer centre car park on a whim ~5 years ago aaand got wrecked for AUD$40 for about an hour. Probably could have got it cheaper if I’d booked online, but this was just an on the spot decision with a friend.
My city just increased parking prices by more than 10x in the centre overnight. From around 30 usd a year to around 45 usd a month. It has been a month, and the amount of cars hasn't decreased... I hope it was just a gradual step and not actually the solution
$1.5/day is still very cheap in absolute terms
In Seattle it costs $37 to park for 2 hours I found that out the hard way
Apparently in Santa Monica, California, they have cameras at each on-street parking meters, and when there's time still in the meters and the car is gone, it resets back to 0, so other people can't use left over time. While Santa Monica I making high profits.
Wow! All this sounds so dystopian to someone who doesn’t drive. 😅
I don’t really want to know how much parking demand changes if I want to get downtown and drink coffee. I don’t even want to drive there
it seems intuitive that parking meters would be hard coded to lower their price for every 5 minutes it's not being used for example and after it is used, the price is reset to some base amount
Any examples of parking access or price differences due to person driving? For example more, cheaper downtown spaces for shoppers, fewer, more expensive for workers?
Monthly parking in a garage in Manhattan is typically more than $400-$700 a month these days. In the upper west side, I’d say the average is more like $850 not including 18% tax.
I've never lived in Manhattan, but I have visited family there. I get the impression that there's really no point in owning a car if you live there.
@@user-vo9wd6tx6c The only reason to own a car in Manhattan is if you often want to leave NYC and go places you can’t get to on public transportation. But even then, it’s almost always cheaper to just rent a car.
In Chicago, parking cost isn’t the real issue🤏 The insane fine for snow level, street cleaning, police activities are more problematic as the warning signs sometime pop up suddenly 🤷♀️
7:53 Downtown Hood River, Oregon Oak St/ 1st St
If you live in a car-centered small town outside NYC, what are your options for getting to Manhattan other than driving there? Are there some kind of park-and-ride stations in the Subway network?
(Genuinely curious, not trying to advocate for free parking. I lived some time in the US but on the West Coast, don't really know the NYC area well.)
Pretty sure his answer is "enter the housing lottery or go work on a collective farm."
Yes, there are tons of park ride stations on our commuter rail systems which are heavily used. Almost everyone on the PATH train drove and parked at one of its stations, same.wirh NJT, LIRR, METRO NORTH, ETC.
Depending on location, your options are Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit, or Metro North Railroad.
story about a parking spot in sydney, near Bondi Beach. Guy offered him 1million and the guy flat out said no.
Sounds like a great way to price people out of a city if the city lacks priper public transportation.
6:38 🦤
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed it. I wonder what it means haha
The better your city's public transit is, the more acceptable it is to charge high parking fees.
I used to pay $640 for parking in my old condo in NYC. I could’ve gotten a 2nd nice car with that! Recently moved so now parking is free lol
'free'
@@BoBandits well I guess covered in the taxes I was already paying to start with
@@MrLegendra Don't forget increase cost in goods and services due to businesses having to cover the cost of providing the parking.
Also, huge increase costs in housing and rents due to parking minimums making productive development patterns non-viable and implicitly favoring SFH.
Hoping that was $640 a year :D
@@irfan9164 a month unfortunately 😅 it’s about $20/day so not the absolute worst
Dutch cities have been removing parking spaces for cycling space for many years now. Especially Amsterdam, but Utrecht is also pretty good at it! Both Utrecht and Amsterdam just don't have that many off street parking spots. Or they can be purchased by residents. It is interesting though that parking in a car dependant country in a big (relatively of course, Dutch cities are quite small compared to NY or Chicago) city is just as expensive as it is in a country trying to drastically reduce cars and car traffic.. The dynamic rates do make sense though. You would expect to see them more often, wouldn't you...
I did a road trip with my dad last year in the US. We are not American or familiar with driving in the US. Anyway, he insisted driving / staying in Downtowns (ironically walkability), instead of getting a suburban hotel by local transit and commuting in. It was a nightmare, not only was it expensive but it was also confusing as some of the places required booking and the entry ways into the parking garages were often very tight to get into. We ended up driving around Philadelphia on same one way road loop for like 45 mins just trying to get into the entrance 😭 Never again. (I would’ve preferred trains but Murica u know)
Consider hotel rooms, its quite reasonable to assume that NYC hotel rooms will be more expensive than those in Phoenix all else being equal. You pay a premium for location. Parking is the same, its storage which is a consumable resource.
Funny that Drammen made this list. Go Norway!
If still more people choose to take the car into Manhatten than before Covid, parking is apparently still too cheap.
I'm pretty sure there is a few car parks in sydney and brisbane that are more expensive per hour than this
I live in NYC and Los Angeles. I have a huge house in the hills of Los Angeles and a great condo in NYC. I HATE having to drive in LA. It sucks so bad. I’m so much happier without a car in NYC. I can walk to everything I need in 10 min. It’s the best
7:20 so you're tellin me, that planning a sector of the economy (parking) actually results in net benefits?
Parking meters can also be a big problem for example here in Seattle parking meters are only in a few areas so drivers park where it is free and walk, it is a problem as this limits parking for business customers, spaces get filled with people that walk to other areas, and they also park on residential streets in front of peoples houses, and even areas that road shoulders are dirt and not yet developed so they park there which can block access for school buses and delivery trucks. 99% of the Seattle area parking is free even big cities like Bellevue just next to Seattle is totally free so people feel like they should park for free and so they try and avoid paying lol.
It seems to me like it would make the most sense to charge more for on-street parking. Pay extra for the convenience. And I think generally, parking should be far reduced in number to use that space for better things.
For the Australian cities did you convert the Australian dollar to the US dollar?
It appears everything is in U.S. dollars.
*dollerydoos
Porto Fino in Italy is nearly 30 euro an hour.
6:04 Planners call it....cruising? .....is that the uh- best word word for it? Considering what it's typically used for?
68% of LA needs to take a cold shower
I'm so glad in my city it's only like $1 an hour
Car ownership isn’t really « having access to a car ». You can chose to not have one or even choose to reside in a place where it’s too complicated/expensive to have one.
Every city like phily where everyone parks in the middle of broad street
SLO usps parking lot 👀
I want to add that Amsterdam is in the process of making its entire city center car-free.
the high on-street parking makes sense they don't want cars there at all. (in the near future)
good move
which are the other cities outside the US where car ownership is lower than 22% in manhattan?
I would’ve expected Chicago at #1 due to the foreign bank incident
I wish all parking was this expensive
Amsterdam is removing another 10.000 parking spots before the year 2025.
Edinburgh Scotland never gets mentioned in stories about parking, but from my frequent visits there, it is the most aggressive city I've encountered when it comes to parking enforcement. On one visit, while my wife needed to return some items at a store on Princess Street, I parked in nearby 20-minute spaces and kept a close eye on the several parking checkers working this central area. I moved the car from space to space 4 times while waiting for her. Edinburgh's parking tickets are pricey. There are many off street parking garages, but these tend to be filled with central area employees. The light rail from the airport to Princess Street is the best way to visit central Edinburgh. There is a large free park and ride lot at the airport and the tram has multiple stops in the central area.
Wait, you moved your car 4 times? Great for your car and the environment and the people who actually need to run in and out.
It's very hit-and miss. Leith Walk has become notorious for vehicles parking on the pavement (and thus damaging it). Pavement/sidewalk parking has just become illegal in the city as of this month so we will see if that changes anything.
Driving in the historic centre of the city is so bad that most people just get the bus. Our council owned/run bus network is one of the best in the UK.
@@BoBandits Darn right I did. I've paid Edinburgh parking tickets and, if it weren't for the tram being there now, I would do the move the car thing again.
Princes street is honestly a nightmare for cars, yet there are few ways to avoid it, especially if you want to go somewhere closeby. Pretty infuriating
@@dirty_mac Cars are banned from Princes Street.
3:11 Was that a motorcycle in the bike lane?!
Happens all the time.
Looks like a moped, idk about USA but in Sweden you're permitted to drive class 2 mopeds on bike paths.
Laws vary by state, enforcement tends to be very lax, and as long as speeds are reasonable, impact should be low. Interestingly, e-bikes are effectively electric mopeds, and we normalize those on bike paths.
@@rianfelis3156 in a lot of places it does depend on the type of moped and type of electric bike.
but the big difference is that an electric bike weight is maybe 25 > 30 kg and a moped is significantly heavier (around 100kg)
so even if they fulfill the same function in a similar way, an moped is still a lot more dangerous than an e-bike.
i much rather get hit by an e-bike than by a moped.
would have been great to see cost of parking compared to the cost of real estate
when it’s said that parking is “expensive” what is that in comparison to? It seems like it’s compared to either other parking or the audience’s value of a dollar
Woah are the prices taht expensive in NYC? I live in the metro area and when I (stupidly, I know) DRIVE into NYC I pay like $20 or less for a few hours of parking in manhattan….. not too wild if I have passengers to justify!
IN SAO PAULO BRAZIL THEY HAD BUT THESE PARKING METER BOXES WERE REMOVED REASON FOR EXTORTION OF A LOT OF THIEF BEHIND ALL OF THIS
Zurich airport would like to have a word. First five minutes on their departure level are free, but if you are slow, CHF 1 per minute from the start !
That seems like a great policy as long as they have some accommodations for the disabled / elderly.
@@Snowshowslow Nope. You can go into the regular parking garage, which does have handicap spots and accessible elevators.
@@goblinsgym Ah that works too :)
congestion pricing FTW!!! Great video as usual. :]
I suspect that if Westminster or the City of London were separated from London, which they legally are, they would snag the top spots…
Make cities walkable and public transportation reliable everywhere!!
won't happen in the South in my lifetime affluent suburbs do everything in their power to prevent expansion 1960 mentality
I parked in a parking meter space and a constable walked up to me, and wondered what I was doing. I told him the parking meter was full, because I could not put a dollar coin in it. He said he will issue a parking ticket if I don't move on. At least the coppa knew the problem. I took up his option and drove away.
I know I've seen this video before, am I having a deja vu moment or am I losing my mind
So the most car focused countries are pricier? Bizarre.
So parking spots can make more an hour that some people make working. Madness
i know a parking in athens/greece where you pay 25€ per hour.
Edit:average monthly sallary?about 600-800€. 😛
In Greece, cars are destroying the antiquities, so I'm surprised that they allow them at all
what antiquities are exactly destroyed?are you making fun🤣of me.@@mariaansley1519
well in turkey and albania and rumania ,the donkeys(Balkan Jeep) shit on antiquities but they still allow them.i guess you have a strange humor.@@mariaansley1519
There is no point in reducing traffic with high parking prices if the infrastructure for alternative travel isnt invested in. You are just changing were the issue happens but arent solving it.
My main criticism of SF Park is that it never broke even. Cities should not be throwing away taxpayer dollars on private car storage.