Im currently in SE asia. Motorcycles and ebikes are 100x better than cars. Anytime there are cars here they are just in the way and even dangerous but bikes an scooters tuck away really nicely.

It should factually reduce the cost of building housing as that is one less thing to build. How much that cost reduction is going to translate to lower buying/letting prices is a different question, I agree

More and more european towns aim to have very few parkings, and very expensive ones only (or some that need a valid reason, as for hospitals). So the most convenient and affordable way to park the car is out of the town, near some public transport ending stations. As you let your shoes at the house's entrance, you let your car at the town's entrance.

Reducing cars improves the quality of air, reduce sound nuisances, reduce accidents risk, and allows to the public space to have more trees, benches, etc. Otherly said, less cars in town brings an higher quality of life.

Why the fuck should you have to pay to park at a hospital….? With your asinine logic, the library and train probably should need paid parking too? So everything should have to be paid for? Using the train? Using the library? Gotta pay out to use free amenities I guess. Because that makes fucking sense….

Uhhh… someone needs a car for that mate… get rid of the cars and you couldn’t do that…

That is one of the usual exception made: parking at hospital is usually free (when justified by hospital needs).

Hospitals almost always charge because it’s usually near public transport and they don’t want people using their parking and using the train leaving nothing for the people that would need them. If they aren’t near public transport or a neighborhood (which is not a great place…) they usually don’t need to since it’s not being stolen by residents of the neighborhood or publicly tranport users.

If your gonna pay for parking, you mind as well pay to use the library and train too. Mind as well have everything paid and nothing is free with taxes. That’s what your saying here. That’s obviously a terrible way to do things.

In the ideal world, the parking and the amenities would both all be free. There’s no need or reason to charge for parking, other than pocketing the money, provided enough parking is available for everyone.

A lot of European apartment parking is just a designated street parking space anyway. I'm not sure if that's the case in Barcelona, but I see it often in the UK.

That is a great way of doing, people living in such town are mostly happy about it. Except car fanatics of course.

Here exterior parkings are linked to public transport. So if you park there and take trams or bus, it is both secure and cheap. There are enough public transport and a good network, and so you can easily go to library or train station... or to whatever place of interest in town.

No, please God don't make mandatory parking a part of real estate. Build one large garage per X blocks and get rid of cars as a primary means of transport. Cars are a blight on the land and far to expensive to be sustainable. We need better public transit everywhere in Germany (although I think it's quite good especially compared to the north America).

Trams, trains, and subways should be the future of Germany as they're far more cost effective and far more human centric.

So you’re fine with paying to use a library or train? Instead of these being free amenities from taxes?

Okay buddy.

Charging for parking, unless it’s by the city is purely for that locations profit. It doesn’t prevent anything.

And the city charging is pointless and quite backwards, they should be providing amenities for free, not charging per use. That’s archaic as fuck.

And your comments don’t align with the story, if there’s enough parking for all this stuff, why are they doing all this to remove street parking? And with this law, that library and train station wouldn’t have to provide any parking anymore… so there wouldn’t be enough spots. Are you even following along or just saying what comes into your mind?

Who paid for it? Not the person buying the building or unit. It was already installed, and if it’s street, that’s tax payer money.

Why would you need to charge for a deed? It’s something that’s already there, and what would that money go to? Someone’s pocket? Just charging for parking means squat. The only way it’s useful would be if the city is collecting it, but it’s always a third party and they give a pittance to the city if they even do. It’s almost always profit driving instead of community or for the benefit or the city.

And why is the street parking filled up? Well that would be because buildings don’t install enoughparking already…. Or they don’t want to pay, so they go somewhere else nearby…. There’s also nothing to stop someone from buying one of these parking feee units while owning a vehicle… the law doesn’t fix anything, it’s just feel good.

Charging for parking is an archaic system and doesn’t even solve anything, just makes other problems.

I am describing how many modern european cities evolve nowaday, including the one I live in.

I don't know if you really try hard to do not understand or if you are genuinely surprised by it.

Here, library comes with no cost at all unless you want a plan for borrowing books AND you aren't a resident of the city. The transport system isn't linked to the library. And the library doesn't have parking slots (except for those who work there, for some).

The public transport system is huge and allows to go fastly from anywhere in town to anywhere in town. It comes with different pricing according to the uses, and resident with low income have special prices. But the full price for an unlimited travels plan for a month is still cheaper than a full tank of ethanol gazoline. (Yet I agree with you, Montpellier is right to make public transport free for everyone, and we are more and more pushing for that).

Exterior parking offer a daily secured parking that come with a daily worth of transportation on the public network. Price is made to be affordable. I don't personaly use this service, but many do and like it, so I think it is adapted.

Those who insist to go into town by car, can still do it. Public parking are lesser and lesser, and price for parking on town owned parkings in center town is usually expensive. Free or affordable parkings in center town are not at convenient places (or need a subscription). Of course, public services often have some parking reserved for their own use. Some shops have their own parking slots too, but reserved for their clients too...

The whole thing is a financial insentive play: if you accept to respect the soft rules it is cheap and easy, if you want refuse to respect them it is costy and less convenient. Which is not a perfect way, I agree, it makes laws that rich are allowed to disrespect just because they pay instead ; but it makes life in town better than before, and hopefully it opens the door to even less cars in town.

Just because parking isnt mandatory doesnt mean they wont build it. It will just match demand more closely.

Plenty of functional cities were built before parking was a thing. While they do have lots of on street parking, pre-1950s cities also have the best transit.

Show me where I said we should ban cars completely. That was your interpretation.

you could have just looked up barcelona on a map, you know. This comment feels like astroturfing.

is it legal to randomly park on the side of the street in spain/barcelona? Here in sweden it's at least not something that would be tolerated en-masse.

maybe not garages, but just centralizing surface parking lots is definitely a good idea since it makes car ownership more annoying and later on you can trivially construct a proper building on that spot.

Anything that keeps cars off streets the longest and efficiently stores them. The vast majority of people should be forced to use public transit to transverse cities. Everything is made slower and more expensive when we allow cars on inner street roads.

I don't know. In my homecountry it is however very common