Great video! I grew up near a small city that always complains about the amount of parking and uses parking and vehicle access as an excuse to fight pedestrian improvements. I might keep this in my back pocket for the next time I have to push back against a business owner being worried about parking right up front... Minor point, the intro text was really difficult to read, but your audio and editing are superb!
Great episode. Ive long wondered how a town you literally walk thru in 20 minutes would need so much parking. The South in this country is so obsessed with the car. In most cities it really makes it difficult to walk or take public transpirtation for cities' live of the auto. Knoxville is a small and very walkable town. But they feel they need this parking. Great observation.
I like onstreet parking cause it narrows the road and makes driviers slow down also it is a crash barrier between ped and cars the only problem i have is when they park right up to the intersection and thus u have to peek out to see what is coming
As I’m sure most of the available parking garages aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and I wholeheartedly agree they are ugly drab eyesores, they should bring in a bunch of local artists to fill them up with amazing art and paintings like other parts of town I saw when visiting downtown Knoxville. At the very least, it would make the areas feel more welcoming and may encourage more foot traffic to check the designs out. Unique colorful lighting could also help. I’m surprised how very little most US cities use accent color lighting on their structures, bridges, vegetation, etc. Lighting is such a powerful and bold way to take the boring to beautiful.
Knoxville could reduce car dependency by having a dense network of bus lines running at no more than 30 minutes apart on each line, 15 during the day and early evening, and 5 at rush hours. Toronto already does something like this even though they also have trolleys, subways, a skytrain, and commuter railways.
Yes, there may be more parking spaces than visitors to downtown on a daily basis, but I've found one of the attractions to visiting downtown is the comfort of an abundance of parking. This allows for downtown's booming number of entertainment options. Take Cumberland Ave for example. It has adopted the strategy of less car traffic for more foot traffic with their road remodeling in recent years and it has struggled to keep buildings occupied with businesses, likely due to a lack of visitation outside of the UTK's academic calendar because of the lack of parking around The Strip.
That logic sounds intuitive, but I think it just seems like car traffic makes up a much larger proportion of total store traffic than it actually does because cars are a lot more noticeable than pedestrians. Also, the current situation is in a feedback loop, because more free parking means fewer nearby apartments and so less foot traffic. It's a problem that compounds itself. And free parking like this, that is subsidized by the city, means that everyone pays higher taxes, including the businesses that think they will benefit from it. Also, alternatives to free parking, namely trains and buses, have the capability to carry way more people into town to visit these businesses than cars ever could.
Great video. I’d go further: There shouldn’t be any parking spaces in downtown. The space should all be used for offices, shops, homes, parks, plazas and pedestrian streets. People wanting to come to downtown should walk, cycle or use transit. Anyone who insists on driving a car should park on the edge of downtown, not in it. Ludicrous waste of valuable space.
*Andreas, your college degrees do not account for shit unless you’re willing to actually search for the MUCH larger reason for all of this.* *You’re apparently coming from a world of affluence (certainly compared to a lot of other people.) You seem to view this lack of free parking as if it’s a bothersome hangnail to people. As if everyone can afford things (because you always could) and that’s why they’re not coming to downtown, because they don’t want to have to put up with the bothersome hangnail of having to pay for parking. Certainly it couldn’t be because a whole lot of people are living in dire economic straits and couldn’t even afford the gas money to get downtown, could it?* *But wait….that would take something called EMPATHY from you towards other people. Unless you are willing to grow that quality in yourself (which you are showing an obvious lack of in videos like this) all of this is just pure neoliberal trash. Not to mention the fact that it’s violent, as violence comes in many different forms.* *”The greatest act of violence is poverty” - Mahatma Gandhi.*
The slow descent into madness at 5:30 understandable, we've all been there
yep, tho i noticed that you do that in every one of your videos lol i guess im getting started
@@HowtoBuildtheWorld haha very true
Thank you. Your videos are so educational and well researched. Knoxville is lucky to have you, and this city needs to elect/hire you STAT
Thank you for thinking that :D I would but my crazy ideas may be too much for them
Great video! I grew up near a small city that always complains about the amount of parking and uses parking and vehicle access as an excuse to fight pedestrian improvements. I might keep this in my back pocket for the next time I have to push back against a business owner being worried about parking right up front...
Minor point, the intro text was really difficult to read, but your audio and editing are superb!
Great episode. Ive long wondered how a town you literally walk thru in 20 minutes would need so much parking. The South in this country is so obsessed with the car. In most cities it really makes it difficult to walk or take public transpirtation for cities' live of the auto. Knoxville is a small and very walkable town. But they feel they need this parking. Great observation.
"Welcome to downtown Tennessee" that's quite the claim that Knoxville is making
i say knoxville so much, i forget to say it when i actually need to lol
I like onstreet parking cause it narrows the road and makes driviers slow down also it is a crash barrier between ped and cars the only problem i have is when they park right up to the intersection and thus u have to peek out to see what is coming
As I’m sure most of the available parking garages aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and I wholeheartedly agree they are ugly drab eyesores, they should bring in a bunch of local artists to fill them up with amazing art and paintings like other parts of town I saw when visiting downtown Knoxville. At the very least, it would make the areas feel more welcoming and may encourage more foot traffic to check the designs out. Unique colorful lighting could also help. I’m surprised how very little most US cities use accent color lighting on their structures, bridges, vegetation, etc. Lighting is such a powerful and bold way to take the boring to beautiful.
Yeah, getting rid of parking on gay street is a great first step
Knoxville could reduce car dependency by having a dense network of bus lines running at no more than 30 minutes apart on each line, 15 during the day and early evening, and 5 at rush hours. Toronto already does something like this even though they also have trolleys, subways, a skytrain, and commuter railways.
Knoxville does have a public transit system and downtown Knoxville had a free trolley.
the bus lines run hourly (which is not ideal) and the free trolley only serves downtown... i want bike infrastructure too :0
Yes, there may be more parking spaces than visitors to downtown on a daily basis, but I've found one of the attractions to visiting downtown is the comfort of an abundance of parking. This allows for downtown's booming number of entertainment options. Take Cumberland Ave for example. It has adopted the strategy of less car traffic for more foot traffic with their road remodeling in recent years and it has struggled to keep buildings occupied with businesses, likely due to a lack of visitation outside of the UTK's academic calendar because of the lack of parking around The Strip.
That logic sounds intuitive, but I think it just seems like car traffic makes up a much larger proportion of total store traffic than it actually does because cars are a lot more noticeable than pedestrians. Also, the current situation is in a feedback loop, because more free parking means fewer nearby apartments and so less foot traffic. It's a problem that compounds itself. And free parking like this, that is subsidized by the city, means that everyone pays higher taxes, including the businesses that think they will benefit from it. Also, alternatives to free parking, namely trains and buses, have the capability to carry way more people into town to visit these businesses than cars ever could.
Great video. I’d go further: There shouldn’t be any parking spaces in downtown. The space should all be used for offices, shops, homes, parks, plazas and pedestrian streets. People wanting to come to downtown should walk, cycle or use transit. Anyone who insists on driving a car should park on the edge of downtown, not in it. Ludicrous waste of valuable space.
i hear the sun sphere is full of wigs
i wonder what king of wigs?
we should colab on a video sometime. you're very entertaining
sure :]
*Andreas, your college degrees do not account for shit unless you’re willing to actually search for the MUCH larger reason for all of this.*
*You’re apparently coming from a world of affluence (certainly compared to a lot of other people.) You seem to view this lack of free parking as if it’s a bothersome hangnail to people. As if everyone can afford things (because you always could) and that’s why they’re not coming to downtown, because they don’t want to have to put up with the bothersome hangnail of having to pay for parking. Certainly it couldn’t be because a whole lot of people are living in dire economic straits and couldn’t even afford the gas money to get downtown, could it?*
*But wait….that would take something called EMPATHY from you towards other people. Unless you are willing to grow that quality in yourself (which you are showing an obvious lack of in videos like this) all of this is just pure neoliberal trash. Not to mention the fact that it’s violent, as violence comes in many different forms.*
*”The greatest act of violence is poverty” - Mahatma Gandhi.*