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A Berkeley bike lane would eliminate 145 parking spaces. Residents are suing to stop it
(www.sfchronicle.com)
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I’d argue that a lot of the lower income residents need their cars/parking more to survive. Especially in a high cost of living area.
Lower income residence can’t afford cars dude. Take the local minimum wage, find an apartment that could be reasonably split up between n-roomates and then do the math on where the money goes from there. It’s expensive to be poor.
I don’t disagree with your last statement. However, “house poor” is a thing. People squeaking by on the mortgages. They don’t deserve parking near their homes?
“House Poor” is white people problems morty. Imagine actually being housing insecure and not by choice.
I’m gonna hard disagree with you here. And not sure how race factors into bike lanes or parking.
What does their code/law say? If they don’t have on-site parking then that’s a feature and not a bug.
Say you have a two car garage, and your kid turns 18 and they need a car to get to college. You give them your old car and buy yourself an EV. They can’t park on the street they live on due to a bike lane. Is that fair to a family paying property taxes in Berkley?
But you don’t subsidize these bike lanes because you don’t live in Berkley.
It’s the same concept and arguing otherwise is illogical
Again, I’m going to disagree. We’re not talking about your town.