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Originally Posted by TheRitsman
That legitimately sounds like hell on Earth and would generate so much traffic. We need less parking if anything. The downtown has an overabundance of parking and if the Burlington parking garage can teach us something, it's that suburbanites want to park as close as possible to their destination and aren't willing to walk. The garage is never full except 1 or 2 days in December when parking is free and it's prime shopping season.
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And since a number of suburbanites are already vowing to avoid the downtown because of the forthcoming congestion, their parking needs will be nil.
Rather than a massive parking garage, integrating publicly-available parking into podiums is a better way to replace some of what is "lost." But parking capacity and its pricing are levers to get people to travel by alternative modes... which makes the HSR re-vamp important, and so many people use ride-hailing services. Also, there's nothing wrong with taking a taxi! (local cab companies seem to be upping their game over the past few years)