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June 09, 2005
Article: CA as a transportation study
The Economist takes a look at growing commute times using CA as a model for discussion. Solutions to traffic include raising gas prices, HOT and HOV lanes, public transit, and, most interestingly, zoning for fewer parking spaces:
Under the current rules, for every single job in the central business district of Los Angeles there is 0.52 of a parking space; in San Francisco, there is 0.14 of a parking space for each job; in New York, just 0.06. Last week, a $1.8 billion project to revitalise LA's downtown area around Grand Avenue was unveiled: it envisages offices, a 275-room hotel, up to 2,600 housing units—and as many as 5,500 new parking spaces. Land-use policies help explain why San Francisco County's 2m licensed drivers have a mere 382,000 cars between them, while LA County's 5.9m drivers have 5.9m.
Comments
NPR today (I think it was on forum) was debating having congestion-based metering in downtown SF (ala London), in case you're interested in looking up the online audio
Posted by: kwc at June 9, 2005 11:45 PM