if everyone drove to Philadelphia center city, parking lots would crowd out actual places of employment | PlanPhilly

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If everyone drove to work in Center City, how much parking would we need? According to a new report from the Center City District: 2.6 square miles of surface parking. The size of William Penn’s 1682 plan for the city? 2.2 miles. Visualize that another way: If you were to build parking garages the size of the Comcast Center, you’d need 28 of them. If everyone drove to work in Philly, parking spaces would crowd out the actual places of employment. In other words: Transit matters. That’s the takeaway from Center City District’s latest report, which examined where the region works and how people commute.

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if everyone drove to Philadelphia center city, parking lots would crowd out actual places of employment | PlanPhilly

MoBikeFed comment: This is a common situation in major downtown areas. In the Midwest, we often prefer to load up our downtown areas with large surface parking lots. But this pushes businesses and employment centers outward, diluting the value of the downtown area. To make a truly successful downtown area, real transportation choice is needed--a combination of walking, bicycling, public transportation, and automobile traffic.