Comments on: City Council Signs Off on 400-Car Garage in Hell’s Kitchen

By: Urbanis

Urbanis — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:11:44 +0000

Great comments!

I also want to see a certain amount of space in parking garages mandatorily allotted to bicycles. How about a 4:1 car/bicycle ratio? For example, a garage for 400 cars would also have to accommodate 100 bicycles. Assuming 10-12 bicycles take up one car space, that would mean at most 10 car spaces in the 400-space garage would have to be reserved for bicycles, which is no great hardship. Also, since the bicycle only takes up a fractional space, the cyclist should be charged a fractional rate.

This solution would provide secure and affordable indoor bicycle parking and help encourage greater use of non-polluting transit as well as less congested roadways.

By: christine

christine — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:47:09 +0000

Moratorium, I like that word. It is stern and humbling . Get your act together! stop wasting our air! get a grip!
In 1978 , Friends of the earth won a judgment against the city for not being compliant with the clean air act and a moratorium on parking was imposed by the judge.

This went on for a few years until everyone negotiated the current special permit .

By: MrManhattan

MrManhattan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:22:17 +0000

Maybe lemons can be turned into lemonade.

Since 400 new private spaces have been approved for cars, the community should demand that 400 public curbside spaces be returned to people in the form of widened sidewalks and protected bus and or bike lanes.

Seems like a fair trade off,

What do you think, DOT??

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:08:01 +0000

So the special permit process will be replaced by a special-special permit process. Why not a straightforward moratorium on new parking spaces? And a 10 percent annual reduction until the total is half what it is now?