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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I remember learning about not parking near intersections years ago. I still have my old driving rules booklet published in 1994 and the section on parking has a list of 12 restrictions and requirement, the first being that parking is not permitted within 7.5m of an intersection, and the second being that it isn't permitted within 10m of a stop or yield sign. It just seemed like such common sense that it never occurred to me that there may be jurisdictions that didn't have this.
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NYC's stance on daylighting is political due to the loss of 4-8 parking spaces at each intersection if we were to actually follow NYS's official universal daylighting law. Drivers are the proverbial "squeaky wheels who get the grease" minority here, and they gladly let their frustrations known loud and clear whenever "their" street parking spaces are taken away. And street parking sometimes gets removed for a variety of reasons (new loading zones, new Citibike stations or sanitation bins, new "no standing/parking areas", new pedestrian curb extensions, etc.). Imagine what happens when several spots suddenly vanish on every single block throughout the city.
The fact is that if NYC residents were to own private cars at the rate that mirrors the rest of the U.S., it would be completely unsustainable. As it is, private car ownership already is unsustainable in most neighborhoods. It's not uncommon to hear daily drivers vent about taking 30+ minutes driving around looking for parking every night around their neighborhood, which is a mindbogglingly insane amount of time to waste each day.
So while daylighting at corners may sound like commons sense to you, that's only because you're probably used to it living in a place where street parking isn't that hard to find, even if you are forced to park a few blocks away from your destination. In certain NY neighborhoods, available parking spots will vanish completely within a .5-1 mile radius if you come home too late one evening.
For me, corner parking spots are my least preferred spot because they are very prone to getting clipped by large trucks making turns at that corner. That's my primary motivation to not parking at corners. But in NYC, if I have to park at a corner because it's the only spot left, so be it. I just pray that a large truck doesn't clip my car.
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