Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck

Author:Jeff Speck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2018-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

On this new residential street, 9 foot parking spaces visually narrow the driving zone.

Uber zones: While parking spaces should be marked close to corners, there is a strong logic to marking corner parking spaces as standing-only zones, to handle the onslaught of ride-hailing drivers who need a place to make pickups. Currently, two thirds of all congestion-related traffic citations in San Francisco are going to Uber and Lyft drivers, who continually block driving and cycling lanes.204 As of this writing, no great momentum seems to have been generated around the obvious solution to this problem, which is to designate a certain number of parking spots at each corner—no more than necessary—for pickups and drop-offs only. Customers would be required to walk to corners, and the app would send drivers there automatically. Where blocks are particularly long—say, more than 400 feet—similar locations would be placed at midblock. Cities could begin to enforce such a rule in their problem areas immediately.

Our autonomous future: We’ve all heard the stories about how swarming fleets of autonomous vehicles may eventually make curb parking obsolete (see Rule 26). Similarly, AI computing may make humans obsolete. Neither of these futures can be predicted with enough accuracy to be allowed to influence the design of streets today.

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