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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
maps.amsterdam.nl/gemeenteraad2018/
The Future of the Gardiner East: What Can We Learn from Other Cities?
www.waterfrontoronto.ca/news/future-gardiner-east-…
On street parking and its impact on road performance
www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2…
What Share of Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
www.researchgate.net/publication/325247222_What_Sh…
San Francisco's SFPark Experiment
www.sfmta.com/getting-around/drive-park/demand-res…
escholarship.org/content/qt0j41t7rz/qt0j41t7rz_noS…
Amsterdam Parkeertarieven
www.amsterdam.nl/parkeren-verkeer/parkeertarieven/
How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
transfersmagazine.org/magazine-article/issue-4/how…
Toronto's curbside patios made nearly 50x more money than the parking spots they took up
www.blogto.com/city/2022/10/torontos-curbside-pati…
Even businesses are OK with losing on-street parking. So why would Toronto undo curbside patios?
www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/10/26/ev…
What would a free market for parking look like? It'd look a lot like Japan.
www.citybeautiful.nz/2018/09/parking-in-japan/
Parking in Japan: What to Know before Getting on the Road - PLAZA HOMES
www.realestate-tokyo.com/living-in-tokyo/driving/p…
Japan's proof-of-parking rule has an essential twin policy
www.reinventingparking.org/2014/06/japans-proof-of…
On-street parking in Tokyo – How to use and the regulations | Living in Tokyo
living.rise-corp.tokyo/on-street-parking-in-tokyo/
Deze kades en bruggen in Amsterdam verkeren in slechte staat
www.parool.nl/amsterdam/deze-kades-en-bruggen-in-a…
Parkeervrije Hoofdgracht
Inspiratiedocument voor een nieuwe kijk op de grachten
amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/10441109/1/I…
Amsterdam telt al 1141 parkeerplekken minder
www.parool.nl/amsterdam/amsterdam-telt-al-1141-par…
Meer ruimte, minder parkeervakken
amsterdam-autoluw-magazine.readz.com/meer-ruimte-m…
Amsterdam wil 11.200 parkeerplaatsen opheffen. In Oost probeerden ze het een maand uit. ‘Je ruikt de bloemen’
www.trouw.nl/binnenland/amsterdam-wil-11-200-parke…
Cities have a parking problem. More parking is not the solution.
citymonitor.ai/transport/parking/cities-have-a-par…
The Strongest Case Yet That Excessive Parking Causes More Driving
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/study-t…
More Parking Puts More Cars on the Road
www.sightline.org/2021/01/28/more-parking-isnt-har…
What Do Residential Lotteries Show Us About Transportation Choices?
people.ucsc.edu/~jwest1/articles/MillardBall_West_…
The high cost of cheap permit parking in Amsterdam
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 Off-street 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 shout-out
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"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." 🤯
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In Montreal we've pedestrianized over 30 streets and every time business people complain about it and then end up making a lot more money. It's also an amazing experience to walk down theres so much life and it's beautiful to see so many people having fun
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I think you missed another major motivator for this plan. Amsterdam has a rain water dispersion problem, one that got worse with the introduction of more paved survaces and asphalt and that has become even more important as extream rainfall events become more common.
A major reason for removing streetparking therefore is the introduction of more greenery for water management.
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I love when politicians actually attempt to follow through on promises. It's such a rare occurrence.
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I love this man, My colleagues in city planning from the US and UK are highly inspired by your work. They often cite your content as a primary source of inspiration for their own projects, which demonstrates the impact and influence your work has had on urban development.
Had an opportunity to visit Amsterdam this October for unrelated work and seen the construction projects first hand. Couldn't refuse the opportunity to visit, keeping the OVchipcard until next time. :D
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It's amusing how they are so easily able to remove parking spots in Amsterdam. If you did this in the US, a lot of people would literally consider it the end of society lol
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Small bain = watching NJB to learn about intrastructure
Big brain = watching NJB to learn the intersection you avoid due to construction actually opened up again
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The effort and accurateness you put into your videos is insane. I always appreciate the original non-stock footage you take and use in the videos and the list with all the sources links in the video description. Keep up your work. You are inspiring a lot of people.
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I like the person failing to park their bike at 10:41 and someone tripping over the flat ground the next second lol
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Amsterdam's stubborn insistence on allowing cars into the city center remains baffling to me. There are examples all over the country such as Utrecht and Groningen that show removing cars is GREAT. I'm excited for the car-free Herengracht and hope it will lead the way to more completely car-free areas (such as the entire city lol).
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I think in order to understand the Japanese example you provide (which is excelent), you also need to bring into the explanation the decentralized nature of Japanese neibourhoods. Yes, you have the "proof of parking" thing, but you also reinforce the needlessness of owning a car by providing super eficient and widely accessible public transport. And on top of that, every neibourhood is pretty self-sustained. Japan has a huge small and micro scale enterprise system, so there's a lot of places where people work, shop, eat, study, etc. at ultra-local scale. There are even legal protections to promote and safeguard locla shops at a local level, so they don't get eaten up by large monsters like shopping malls. This means that you normally don't even have the need to go much beyond your own neiborhood for most day to day things... and when you have to, there's plenty of ways to commute eficiently. The integration of good and abundant bicicle parking at train stations helps them to funnel a wider area of residents into using them too.
I'm of the opinion that, as long as cities don't tackle the centralized nature of most towns, where most commerce, jobs, etc. are highly concentrated, there's no way people are going to give up cars that easily.
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One positive from the pandemic in Ireland was on many main streets of towns, various cafes set up outside seating. Good outside seating. They got rid of some main street parking. It made towns more lively. Pretty cool.
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Living in Beijing. The street parking is insane and I'm an avid bike rider. I feel so insecure when I'm riding a bike. The city picked a wrong role model for urban planning or GDP growing (there are a lot of people using car sales as an indicator for economic growth). And they torn down the old city wall to build a ring road ffs.
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The basically abandoned electric car chargers (like you show at 9:40) could, in theory, be converted into electric hook-ups for boats. The Gemeente is trying to encourage canal traffic to be greener (electric boats get their vignettes for less than a third of the price of petrol/diesel ones) and the infrastructure is already there so conversion should be fairly cheap.
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Had to rewatch 10:40 about 10 times! Hope that person's okay. But it made made my day
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Thank you for briefly mentioning the disabled population. I visited Amsterdam for the first time this week and unfortunately had a bit of a rough time due to a dislocated knee. Walkable cities are amazing until you can’t walk… at least most of the trains seemed wheel chair accessible. I can’t even imagine trying to use a mobility aid in other European cities.
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I was in Utrecht recently with my parents, and we drove there. Train is way more expensive when you have three people, and it would have taken longer to get there, because we weren't starting anywhere near a train station. However, Utrecht has a massive P+R on the south side of the city, where you can park all day for six euros, and you get a tram ticket to Central Station, for five people, to and fro. That is insanely good value for money, and on the whole, it was a very pleasant experience. Tram was quick and easy, and if I ever have to drive to Utrecht again, I'll definitely be going back there.
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Love seeing some comparisons to Asia (Japan in this case). I usually only see people comparing Europe/Netherlands against North America/United States and it's getting a bit bland.
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For what it's worth, I found your channel a few years ago and have been a faithful viewer ever since. I am studying urban and regional planning in the U.S., but am currently on exchange studying spatial planning (as the Dutch call it) in Utrecht. Your videos were certainly an inspiration to me in choosing the Netherlands to study in, and it has been really awesome to experience good city planning in person (I'm from Florida). All in all, thank you for spreading awareness about these topics, and for everything that you've done and continue to do!
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@NotJustBikes
9 months ago
Holy crap, Climate Town finally finished their video on parking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8 7 months late, but worth the wait!
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