What is also not mentioned is that before Alliant moved to the sprawlburbs, that building was occupied and its workers who hated the environment enough to drive were somehow finding parking. For the more astute among them, public transit, walking, and bicycling were viable options. (With the exception of a few bikers, none of those options currently exists for the Alliant workers. Employees, initially elated at the "free" parking and the not free up to 20-mile commute each way, may not be so excited about working in the sprawlburbs with ever-increasing congestion and the soon-to-come $5/gallon gas prices, now that their dimwitted employer took away all their transportation options other than the automobile.)
No one has mentioned why any new business needs the parking that Alliant didn't. Could it be that the city is encouraging people to drive to the city, preferably in a single-occupant manner? Another fiction is that the parking ramps pay for themselves. Yes, it's true that the parking garages don't get city subsidies per se. But it is not true that the property taxes paid by the parking utility are as great or greater than if there were a tax-paying building on the location. Yet, it looks as though Madison is rushing to erect yet more eyesores to its obsession with the automobile and its fascination with destroying the environment. All of us pay whenever land is taken out of productive use and given over to the hateful people who drive their global warmers to sit abandoned in a prime downtown location for the entire day. And, as Robbie pointed out, there is no lack of parking downtown. If the city actively promoted alternatives to single-occupant driving as much as they do the need for more parking downtown, we would all be better off. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paco ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: RE: [Bikies] another downtown parking plan > > > > > Where is the parking crisis? > > > > The parking crisis they are talking and are planning on rectifying is in > reference to filling the Alliant building and some other locations. They're > having a problem getting companies to move into the building if they aren't > given ample parking. For casual shoppers there isn't a problem, but for > commuters there allegedly is. Companies don't want to open/move/locate there > is they don't get parking for themselves and customers. > > I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying no one has mentioned > this reason. > > I forsee the city susidizing parking spots in the future for companies to > move downtown. Our tax money at work. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
