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Originally Posted by 427MM
Strongly disagree with you here. We know how much we’re changing the planet and the largest contributors to these changes and we have to be able to live more sustainably. My mortgage includes a $30k parking space that I don’t use. The majority of my friends who come into town do not bring their own vehicle and if they do they are on their own as I’m not going to worry about their carbon machine. Forcing each and every home to have a car is how we remain a car centric place, evolving into something better is how we give the future a chance.
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We need to move the city away from being as car centric as it is. I have concerns about parking availability downtown, but I also think the abundance of parking downtown is causing people to not take mass transit because of convenience.
I *do* think Austin is less than a decade away from the central part of the city being good enough to not need automobiles. If you work *and* live along the route of the new light-rail lines I think you could achieve an automobile-less life and we would see an uptick in services like Car2Go for weekend trips.
Its a chicken and the egg problem for sure, and I think Austin is going to hit a density peak in the next 10 years that will get us there in parts of the city.