San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers than to protect those on foot.
Daylighting, which involves removing parked cars from around crosswalks in order to improve visibility and just wiped out about 14,000 street parking spaces, has proved especially controversial.
I commented before about how not having adequate parking space in parking garages results in more people parking on the street, which makes it harder for motorists, bicyclists, and predestrians to see and obstructs the flow of traffic on the streets.
Vehicles getting increasingly-tall exacerbates the issue further, makes them obstruct views more. And I expect that they’re going to keep getting taller as the shift from ICE to hybrid and then to EVs happens, because there’s nowhere else in the vehicle to put the batteries and such.
I don’t like having parked cars right up against entryways or on corners as a pedestrian, a bicyclist, or a motorist. But it’s probably going to happen if there aren’t mandates to provide enough off-street parking.
I commented before about how not having adequate parking space in parking garages results in more people parking on the street, which makes it harder for motorists, bicyclists, and predestrians to see and obstructs the flow of traffic on the streets.
Vehicles getting increasingly-tall exacerbates the issue further, makes them obstruct views more. And I expect that they’re going to keep getting taller as the shift from ICE to hybrid and then to EVs happens, because there’s nowhere else in the vehicle to put the batteries and such.
I don’t like having parked cars right up against entryways or on corners as a pedestrian, a bicyclist, or a motorist. But it’s probably going to happen if there aren’t mandates to provide enough off-street parking.
Building out better transit and reducing the need for cars would be even more effective.
Among other problems that denser housing and better public transit would solve…