Yeah. I think you're right. My cousin drives everywhere in NYC and I think it's INSANE. I can't think of many reasons non-commercial vehicles need to be parked on the street. If you live in Manhatten you probably don't need a car to get to your job or have enough money to justify renting a parking space.
Odd since there is plenty of space underground to store a lot of cars. Wanting street parking in NYC is like wanting to live in a house not an apartment.
There’s an estimated 190,000 on-street parking spaces in Manhattan, with an estimated 3 million parking on street spaces in NYC total[0]. The primary issue is not a lack of parking. Cars don’t scale in dense urban environments.
This assumes we are talking about what is known in the US as parallel parking, i.e. parking on a street and not parking in a parking lot. Parking lots are the norm in the US.
It's free to park on the street in most of NYC. And, with alternate side of the street rules, spaces open up every couple of days. You just need to be there when the street-sweeper goes by so you can grab one.
This isn't necessarily the case in NYC the further out you go, and really many of the older parts of the north east. Tons of streetcar suburbs only really have street parking.
Parking spaces can go 3D via underground parking a lot more easily than roads can go 3D. Street level parking is a fraction of total parking in the hart of NYC where congestion is a huge issue.
On street parking in a biggish city sounds like a nightmare to me anyways. It's really living on the edge of street cleaning, time limits, and so on...
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