I vote NO! I'm sick and tired of these Corporations building these facilities, pocketing the profits and taxing the citizens for upkeep. Milwaukee gets hit with the taxes, but the mass visitors majority of visitors are from other Counties. Enough is enough!
Why would you provide transit among parking lots? You are proposing massive amounts of free parking, so why would people drive to a parking lot and then leave their car and take transit to another parking lot? Transit productively connects useful destinations directly: people-oriented destinations, walkable destinations, not parking lots. Your priority on massive, free parking lots does not bode well for a walkable, enjoyable area.
Those giant parking lots are all actual useful destinations themselves, ones that tend to have massive region wide demand at very specific times and excess parking at every other time.
But the Brewers don’t care about those other destinations. They care about how fans get to Brewers games.
It’s parking situations like those that lend well to shared parking arrangements, which would reduce the total amount of parking required at each of those destinations to free them up for more development or walkability in the long term.
In the short term, it’s a security blanket for nervous developers who want to plan their parking lots for “Black Friday at the mall” capacity.
Having *any* transit that connected those places on a east west route would be revolutionary for this city. (Probably would need to include tosa village and the zoo, but hey).
This is a pitch aimed at developers by an urbanist because it makes practical and financial sense, not for urbanists for the sake of urbanism. Remember they built the parking lots in the first place.
Transit doesn't work unless there is trip generation for riders every day, day in and day out, not just special events. But if there is mixed use, tending toward activity every single day, not just seasonal or special events, and activity seven days a week, transit could work.
2) However, I think we define transit just *slightly* differently, because I think the bar shuttles are 100% a type of transit, and those are irregular and event specific. Summerfest shuttles exist, both from bars/restaurants and MCTS.
3) The issue at hand to get this off the ground is cutting down on the AmFam parking demand for 82 days a year in order to make the Brewers comfortable starting the needed investments.
I vote NO! I'm sick and tired of these Corporations building these facilities, pocketing the profits and taxing the citizens for upkeep. Milwaukee gets hit with the taxes, but the mass visitors majority of visitors are from other Counties. Enough is enough!
Why would you provide transit among parking lots? You are proposing massive amounts of free parking, so why would people drive to a parking lot and then leave their car and take transit to another parking lot? Transit productively connects useful destinations directly: people-oriented destinations, walkable destinations, not parking lots. Your priority on massive, free parking lots does not bode well for a walkable, enjoyable area.
Those giant parking lots are all actual useful destinations themselves, ones that tend to have massive region wide demand at very specific times and excess parking at every other time.
But the Brewers don’t care about those other destinations. They care about how fans get to Brewers games.
It’s parking situations like those that lend well to shared parking arrangements, which would reduce the total amount of parking required at each of those destinations to free them up for more development or walkability in the long term.
In the short term, it’s a security blanket for nervous developers who want to plan their parking lots for “Black Friday at the mall” capacity.
Having *any* transit that connected those places on a east west route would be revolutionary for this city. (Probably would need to include tosa village and the zoo, but hey).
This is a pitch aimed at developers by an urbanist because it makes practical and financial sense, not for urbanists for the sake of urbanism. Remember they built the parking lots in the first place.
Transit doesn't work unless there is trip generation for riders every day, day in and day out, not just special events. But if there is mixed use, tending toward activity every single day, not just seasonal or special events, and activity seven days a week, transit could work.
1) that's the end goal.
2) However, I think we define transit just *slightly* differently, because I think the bar shuttles are 100% a type of transit, and those are irregular and event specific. Summerfest shuttles exist, both from bars/restaurants and MCTS.
3) The issue at hand to get this off the ground is cutting down on the AmFam parking demand for 82 days a year in order to make the Brewers comfortable starting the needed investments.