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Originally Posted by CoR East
We are only going to see real improvements in transit (better, faster, more frequent routes, that take you where you want to go) in this city if the call and the pressure comes from the suburbs. There are three urban councillors in this City and seven suburban and a very suburb focused mayor. Until their constituents start calling for improved transit, nothing will happen. The best way to jump start that call is to start restricting access to parking throughout the City. People need to begin to see that driving is a choice, and that driving comes with costs. Until then their behavior is unlikely to change.
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I lived/worked in Calgary and driving your car had real costs - parking costs were very high and you got substantial discounts on your car insurance if you took transit instead of commuting so there was a strong economic incentive to take the C-train. In Regina, I believe it is actually cheaper if not cost comparable to drive/park downtown.
I would tend to agree with most of the city report on parking but it has to be done on a zone/neighborhood basis. Parking maximums may have merit in downtown and higher concentration areas but make absolutely no sense in the burbs.
As for this quote, "
More often than not in Regina, builders construct more stalls than are necessary, said the city’s manager of current planning Fred Searle", WHAT? WHERE? since when did it make sense for any developer to voluntarily put in more parking than is necessary? outside of some malls built 50 yrs ago and some power centre big box outlets out on the fringes, what is one single example of a builder putting in too much parking?
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