Thread by @CynthiaMN5

I have commented on this issue at the Lyndale Neighborhood Community Meetings. In principle, this seems good. In practice, you get too many cars parked on the neighboring residential streets. One possibility is having a parking garage nearby for residents of several complexes.

https://twitter.com/FrederickMelo/status/1391816679970295810

I lived in Portland, Oregon for a year, and while I admired Portland's commitment to public transit and being biker friendly, the reality was that certain neighborhoods would experience extreme over parking.

I would go to the Powell's bookstore on Hawthorne SE as well as the Fred Meyer on Hawthorne SE. There are a lot of great restaurants and shops along Hawthorne, but the residential streets surrounding Hawthorne would be over parked by non-residents.

Madison, WI had extremely limited parking because part of the city is along a narrow Isthmus. There were a number of solutions to the problem - one of them was permit parking by neighborhood. I lived for four years in an apartment building just off the square around the capitol.

I had a permit that allowed me to park within about a four block radius of my apt - there were strategies to actually being able to park on my actual street.

One of the most important things that Madison did was fund free bus passes for all the students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and offer discounted bus passes to people who worked at the university.

There have been many times in my life when I didn't own a car, but even when I owned a car in Madison, I pretty much always commuted to campus by bus because parking was expensive and not that close to the Social Sciences Building.

However, now that I am disabled, disability parking is more of a concern for me - I am still healthy enough to ride a bus, but for times when I need to shop or carry heavier items, I would need access to disability parking.

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