A DOT head calls parking minimums "absurd."
"While none of us are guaranteed a place to rest our heads tonight, if we own a car it is required by law to have multiple places to park it. And that to me has alway struck me as absurd." — Secretary Roger Millar
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. Secretary Millar also says that parking plans in ST3 account for more than the total spent on all other station access modes combined. Other modes account for 80% of ridership. He thinks the access spending priorities are inverted.
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. Secretary Millar points out that we should be investing in walkable urban communities if that's the future we want, "not the existing paradigm" of parking and driving to transit. "If you continue to invest in the existing paradigm, what you're gonna get is that paradigm."
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. Secretary Millar asks if it's really equitable forcing "working families to maintain fleets of vehicles at $10k per year per car...and then say we're being equitable by providing a low-cost parking spot" rather than station access options that don't require owning a car.
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. Secretary Millar concludes by saying that parking investments should be decouple from transit investments. "If we have a $1 billion that we could save, maybe we save some of it and spend some of it in ways that bring more people to our system."
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For context, this all relates to 's affordability gap and big opportunities in delaying and/or cutting back on parking to salvage ST3 project timelines.
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Parking is baked in as a big part of the Sound Transit 3 capital expansion program. Delaying parking projects, however, could significantly cut down on delays to actual transit projects. How will that factor into program realignment though?
Story: theurbanist.org/2021/03/30/she
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