Tel Aviv lacks 324,000 parking spots
Tel Aviv City’s Enforcement Department revealed that the metropolitan area of one of the largest cities in Israel is lacking a staggering 324,000 parking spots, Ynet reports.
It is also stated that the shortage results in over 3,000 parking tickets a day, most of which are given between 5pm and 7 pm, in central Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv residents themselves own 152,000 vehicles, the newspaper says, but incoming traffic sees more than 450,000 cars enter the city and compete for 278,000 parking spots.
Fortunately, I have never driven in Tel Aviv and thus I have never been forced to find myself a parking spot there. I have, however, seen huge congestion in the morning peak hours – the 450,000 cars coming to the city from nearby areas, but also from as far as Jerusalem. I once was almost late to an interview at TAU because the bus, coming from J’lem was stuck in traffic.
I have also heard from friends in Tel Aviv that they prefer bicycles and don’t even own cars, because the parking problem is incredibly terrible and it’s pretty much impossible to find a place to park the car anywhere in Tel Aviv.
It would probably be impossible to build more parking spaces inside the city as it’s too crowded anyway. But a viable and well-maintained park & ride system would probably ease the problem at least a little. Build huge parking lots outside the city and give people cheap ticket to get to the city from the P&R and back – and probably many would prefer leaving the vehicle outside.
In England, many cities and towns, even smaller ones, like Canterbury, have quite successful P&R systems. And quite reasonably priced, too. Also many big cities in continental Europe operate P&R.
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Park and Ride facilities don’t exist in Israel but the practice does in fact occur. The only requirement is having large parking spots next to rail and bus stations in peripheral cities.
Generally, however, transportation in Israel is a major problem due to the massive younger population which uses public transportation (soldiers, students and the like) with hundreds of thousand passengers in the beginning and the end of the week who travel into and out of central transportation cities such as Be’er-Sheva and Tel-Aviv.- Be’er-Sheva is the first stop for soldiers who serve in the south and Tel-Aviv is a major stop for students and soldiers who serve in the center and the north.
Without the above factors, I believe many more people would use public transportation as an alternative to cars thus requiring much less parking spots.
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