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veen · 3977 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Planners and Engineers Badly Overestimate Car Traffic By 4500%
I agree that standards are useful, but that doesn't mean they're holy. The ITE is as far as I can tell a traffic planners' Bible, even though it is hopelessly outdated. I've spoken to some planners here in Calgary and they've said that parking is always one of the more difficult problems, as the regulations demand more parking than is often really needed. And by the way, LA is such an outlier that it's not really representative. It's too low density to have good walking / transit options, but too high density to make room for highways.