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"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"

If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While that does seem to make sense, in my opinion it really just gives people more incentive to use a car. If you ban wild parking completely, that might be a different story. But just creating more and more space for cars is not going to solve the problem. The problem is that there are too many cars in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You mean if wild parking was banned completely, it would be a different story if you'd still need regulation in those places. There i'd agree. But in general street parking is not banned in Germany, and illegal street parking is widely tolerated by lots of communes. Where i live the street parking capacity is being used at around 150-200% lol (numbers from a few years ago).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As I said before, different concepts are possible. Nowadays e.g. the trend in Germany goes towards central parking (Quartiersgarage) and an otherwise completly car free neighbourhood (the central parking then gets financed over the plots), combined with public transport and bikeways. Even less car-friendly concepts are possible. But you defintly need a concept. Just "let the plot owners decide themselves" will almost always lead to desaster.