Wait, you're telling me we don't have a return plan EITHER?

Head exploding...

12?

Sadly the event I'm usually attending is called work

I do that to. What I love is that while walking the last hundreds meters to the place you are going you can see all the people who try to park close that are all getting angry in their cars, proving you were right to park further away.

Once you start you never go back.

Hon hon hon

Tourism taking all the parking in your small European town?
Can't park at the only town store because tourists are everywhere and I can't park my car and don't want to be a dick and leave it on the street with 4 blinkers on like any random BMW douche?
Go home hungry and wait till the next day?
Yeah, I'm laughing in European too.

This is the way. I've learned after too many concerts, fairs, games, various other large events, that is just not worth it. I'm taking public transit, petal taxi, Lyft, whatever. I don't want to spend 2 hours of my day doing nothing but staring at tail lights.

I wasn't going to begin with

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Driving further to avoid traffic makes sense: it seems to cause stress:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(1999)25:6%3C409::AID-AB2%3E3.0.CO;2-0

Drive there, park 5 miles away and e bike in

gridlock

wow this is the first time i have seen that word used in its original context in like YEARS lmao

Yes, like away from crowded areas.

Depends on the event. I don't mind parking further away just for ease of pulling in and out, the walk doesn't bother me unless my knee is acting up.

If it's my nephews baseball games, I will park around the next block or two and walk, but if it's a store and the lot is full? Pass.

It depends on where you live, mostly. In my experience, people who live in suburbs don't like to walk very far from their parking spot, dense city dwellers don't mind at all. Either owning a personal vehicle is pointless because everything is within 15 minutes of walking or because owning a car in a packed city is expensive and difficult.

Americans do walk sometimes, but only if it's a special event raising money for charity, or on vacation to a theme park like Disney World or Europe. Otherwise, if you can't park your car literally within sight of your destination, "there's no parking!"

That’s something I wonder about: don’t bike people get their bikes stolen all of the time?

Maybe I’ve just seen too many Lockpicking Lawyer videos.

Yeah somehow finding a pole or something to lock the bike to is impossible sometimes.

I felt that in my 20s, so I'm gonna go with "not too young or lazy"

I'm 42, and don't own a car. Public transport or carpooling for me.

Because public transport sucks in USA, due to car companies bribing/lobbying the corrupt government.

Many places don't have public transit.

Depends where you live and how that area is designed. In much of the US unfortunately public transportation isn't even an option or is an option that is so slow or so expensive it isn't affordable. Vehicles may not be either, but that's not how many people see it.

My drive to the store: 10minutes,with traffic and hitting red lights.

My public transit to the same store: 15 minutes of walking, 30-45 minutes of waiting for a bus at the closest stop to me, it's late or will skip my stop as usual. 20 minutes to get to the next stop that will get me to the store but I have to wait another 5-10 minutes for the bus that actually gets closest to the store to arrive, and 5-10 minutes for it to make it's closest pass. 10 more minutes to walk to the store.

Now do it all in reverse! Luckily the route is slightly faster on the way home because the first bus I take usually chills at the hospital for a little bit and I can just hop a few fences to get to my house quicker than the bus.

So that 10 minute ride in a car now takes me many hours.

Legally I'm not allowed to bike there since I have to cross highways and private property. I still do it when it's cool enough to bike. For the same reasons, I can't walk to the store either, even if my knee could handle the distance.

More rent seeking. Some company convinced cities that pay for parking would make the city money…with a nice cut for the company.

Edit: the parking is already paid for because taxes paid to pave the roads where the parking is. Paid parking is an additional tax with a corporate middleman skimming off the top.

Nah it’s not first world problems. Our cities are selling us out.

One of the cities I live near had a scandal recently where a company just decided to put meters in public lots. No permits, no permission from nearby businesses (who don't even own the lot or care for it) and yet cops still enforced tickets for "going over the time limit"

There was a lawsuit last I heard, but someone went ahead and smashed the kiosk, cut all the meters down, and left everything in a pile by a dumpster.

It's crazy to me how many companies are just doing things and expect the people to just go along with it. Even crazier how often the company is right about that...