The biggest problem i find with traffic in the CBD is parking. Usually individual driving along the streets are looking for a space to park their vechile. Parking is a litmited resource yet it is managed like an unlimited right. Since the price of parking does not shift with demand it incentivizes people to park for as long as possible. If parking spaces were priced more accuratly with demand, indiviudals would park for shorter intervals, allowing more people to use the same space over a given amount of time. Since less people now while be looking for parking while driving, traffic should also decrease as well.
The site that you hae referred me to makes a number of excellent points. From reading it and other comments on thos site i firmly beleive a hollisitc approach would serve NYC best in fighting congestion. That entails SmartPark refrom,expanding loading zones, expanding the parking tax and abolish the exemptions, complete streets for all arterial roadways and enacting Move NY in its entirety.
The biggest problem i find with traffic in the CBD is parking. Usually individual driving along the streets are looking for a space to park their vechile. Parking is a litmited resource yet it is managed like an unlimited right. Since the price of parking does not shift with demand it incentivizes people to park for as long as possible. If parking spaces were priced more accuratly with demand, indiviudals would park for shorter intervals, allowing more people to use the same space over a given amount of time. Since less people now while be looking for parking while driving, traffic should also decrease as well.
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The site that you hae referred me to makes a number of excellent points. From reading it and other comments on thos site i firmly beleive a hollisitc approach would serve NYC best in fighting congestion. That entails SmartPark refrom,expanding loading zones, expanding the parking tax and abolish the exemptions, complete streets for all arterial roadways and enacting Move NY in its entirety.
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