Research shows that availability of residential parking (via stat minima) increases car ownership. Meanwhile, Melbourne CBD has had a stat maximum for residential parking for years, and there’s still an oversupply.
This suggests that excess parking supply is a feature of automobility, not a bug.
Naththan
www.abc.net.au
Australia is wasting more than $1 billion each year building off-street car parks that end up sitting unused and unwanted, a Grattan report has found.