and the price for a permit to park there? Will rise anyway.
So, charging more, to be frustrated by fewer -places to park.
Which sadistic moron hatched this plan? Amsterdam transit commissioner Sharon Dijksma isn't the one... it's more like the "Green Party" singing koombayah and dreaming hippie dreams from the 1960s
Amsterdam’s government is currently being run by a coalition of left and centrist parties in which the Green Left party (GroenLinks) has the largest share.
A promise to reduce parking space formed part of the election promises.
Since they promised that no driver will actually be stripped of the right to park, they re working from the conceptual theory that it will simply not replace any parking permits that are given up when drivers leave the city, give up their cars, or die.
In this way, the city reckons it can naturally do away with about 1,100 permits a year. It's getting rid of any parking spots that are in really bad need of repair, and since no city govt can fall to pressure to fix a road, fill a pothole, or please the drivers, they will instead take this opportunity to destroy any parking spot that needs fixing and repairing, along with all the parking on any road that needs remodeling.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/amsterdam-cars-parking-spaces-bike-lanes-trees-green-left/586108/
via http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/04/amsterdam-will-eliminate-11000-parking.html
So, charging more, to be frustrated by fewer -places to park.
Which sadistic moron hatched this plan? Amsterdam transit commissioner Sharon Dijksma isn't the one... it's more like the "Green Party" singing koombayah and dreaming hippie dreams from the 1960s
Amsterdam’s government is currently being run by a coalition of left and centrist parties in which the Green Left party (GroenLinks) has the largest share.
A promise to reduce parking space formed part of the election promises.
Since they promised that no driver will actually be stripped of the right to park, they re working from the conceptual theory that it will simply not replace any parking permits that are given up when drivers leave the city, give up their cars, or die.
In this way, the city reckons it can naturally do away with about 1,100 permits a year. It's getting rid of any parking spots that are in really bad need of repair, and since no city govt can fall to pressure to fix a road, fill a pothole, or please the drivers, they will instead take this opportunity to destroy any parking spot that needs fixing and repairing, along with all the parking on any road that needs remodeling.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/amsterdam-cars-parking-spaces-bike-lanes-trees-green-left/586108/
via http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/04/amsterdam-will-eliminate-11000-parking.html
I was two times in Amsterdam, I'm not surprised that they want to push cars from the old town. That part of city just like most of old European cities is not by any means design to handle that type of transportation. There is no parking space, streets are narrow and crowded. Old buildings don't take well years/decades of additional vibrations and exhausts. Degradation of infrastructure. So in many old cities they push out cars from old towns, I absolutely get it and from perspective of time as I observe following pushing out cars from old town in my city it was massive positive change to that area. They want to even push further but that is somehow connected to building large underground parking that would be able to replace parking spots around old buildings with the one that will be hidden underground.
ReplyDeleteI hope Jesse that you understand, old European cities have a lot of problems with being just old, the core of them had been build hundreds of years ago and they struggle to accept ever growing number of cars. Amsterdam old town being a canal infrastructure have especially large problems with that.
The same thing is happening in many cities in France, Germany, Italy and other countries. Going by car to a big city in Europe has become a nightmare. But with the eviction of cars, businesses are selling less and less while people are buying more and more over the Internet. Everything can be found outside the cities and many merchants complain and close.
ReplyDeletepossibly a return to inner city blight of the 70s
DeleteNot so. Gentrification is part of what's happening in most of those towns, and the people moving in are less inclined to using cars. Instead bicycles and effective public transport (Amsterdam is great in this respect) fit the need. And when they do need cars, car sharing programs seem to work pretty well.
DeleteTrue enough, some types of business will be replaced by others, but internet sales probably matter more in this respect, than traffic restrictions.
Btw, the inner city blight of the 1970s was a US phaenomen, not a European one.