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In 2018, the political party GroenLinks promised to remove 10,000 parking spaces from the streets of Amsterdam by 2025. So how is that going?
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References & Further Reading
Verkiezingen Gemeenteraad 2018 uitslagen per stemlocatie
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/gemeenteraa...
The Future of the Gardiner East: What Can We Learn from Other Cities?
https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/news/...
On street parking and its impact on road performance
https://www.matecconferences.org/art...
What Share of Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
San Francisco's SFPark Experiment
https://www.sfmta.com/gettingaround/...
https://escholarship.org/content/qt0j...
Amsterdam Parkeertarieven
https://www.amsterdam.nl/parkerenver...
How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
https://transfersmagazine.org/magazin...
Toronto's curbside patios made nearly 50x more money than the parking spots they took up
https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/10/t...
Even businesses are OK with losing onstreet parking. So why would Toronto undo curbside patios?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contr...
What would a free market for parking look like? It'd look a lot like Japan.
http://www.citybeautiful.nz/2018/09/p...
Parking in Japan: What to Know before Getting on the Road PLAZA HOMES
https://www.realestatetokyo.com/livi...
Japan's proofofparking rule has an essential twin policy
https://www.reinventingparking.org/20...
Onstreet parking in Tokyo – How to use and the regulations | Living in Tokyo
https://living.risecorp.tokyo/onstr...
Deze kades en bruggen in Amsterdam verkeren in slechte staat
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/deze...
Parkeervrije Hoofdgracht
Inspiratiedocument voor een nieuwe kijk op de grachten
https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/...
Amsterdam telt al 1141 parkeerplekken minder
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/amste...
Meer ruimte, minder parkeervakken
https://amsterdamautoluwmagazine.re...
Amsterdam wil 11.200 parkeerplaatsen opheffen. In Oost probeerden ze het een maand uit. ‘Je ruikt de bloemen’
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/amste...
Cities have a parking problem. More parking is not the solution.
https://citymonitor.ai/transport/park...
The Strongest Case Yet That Excessive Parking Causes More Driving
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
More Parking Puts More Cars on the Road
https://www.sightline.org/2021/01/28/...
What Do Residential Lotteries Show Us About Transportation Choices?
https://people.ucsc.edu/~jwest1/artic...
The high cost of cheap permit parking in Amsterdam
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4140629
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Getting rid of parking is contentious
2:11 The problem with street parking
2:46 The finances of street parking
4:36 The Japanese example
5:47 The exceptions
7:20 How did they do it?
8:01 Example construction projects
8:41 Crumbling canal walls
9:47 Just do it
10:28 Frans Halsbuurt
11:22 Underwater cars
12:46 How is 10,000 counted?
13:17 Offstreet parking is a problem, too
13:57 Amsterdam's car problem
15:31 Why are these people driving!?
16:50 How to reduce car use in the centre
17:20 4,000 and counting
17:51 GiveWell
19:23 Patreon shoutout