We need to eliminate all on street parking downtown and let the roads be used to carry vehicular and cyclist traffic. Eliminating parking completely would free up an extra lane on each side of the street in most places. So where do you ask will people park? We need to start incorporating sublevel and above level parking ramps into new structures, ideally connected with the new skyway system expansion that should happen with new development. Also this means we can get rid of all surface lots downtown and develop them into highrise developments incorporating parking into the structures. This way it's not an eyesore and we can actually provide more and more parking downtown than just with street level lots and street parking. We can also incorporate nice medians to act as islands for pedestrians crossing the streets. This also means sidewalks could be wider allowing more businesses to incorporate them into their models (retail/restaruants, Note: This is just for downtown, where I expect in the future, no matter how much you try to push out the automobile, it'll get more and more conjested.
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