Depends on where are you specifically in the city.
I believe on-street parking is usually packed because there’s a lot of people and cars take up a lot of space. Like, you have an apartment building that’s long enough to have five parking spaces in front of it. Cool, but 200 people live in that building. That’s part of why car focused culture is trash: it doesn’t scale well at all. Cities can’t and shouldn’t do sprawl where every person has their own parking spot. We shouldn’t be building massive parking decks that could be used to house people instead.
A couple friends of mine here have cars, and they’ll leave it parked on the street for days because they don’t need it. If it wasn’t for the “you need to move your car for street cleaning”, it might stay there for even longer. For most things here it’s easier to walk or take transit.
Depends on where are you specifically in the city.
I believe on-street parking is usually packed because there’s a lot of people and cars take up a lot of space. Like, you have an apartment building that’s long enough to have five parking spaces in front of it. Cool, but 200 people live in that building. That’s part of why car focused culture is trash: it doesn’t scale well at all. Cities can’t and shouldn’t do sprawl where every person has their own parking spot. We shouldn’t be building massive parking decks that could be used to house people instead.
A couple friends of mine here have cars, and they’ll leave it parked on the street for days because they don’t need it. If it wasn’t for the “you need to move your car for street cleaning”, it might stay there for even longer. For most things here it’s easier to walk or take transit.