Every neighborhood needs to change to adapt to a growing city, and no single neighborhood should bear the burden of all of the change needed.

Maybe not disappear, but vehicles have been reducing in number over the past two decades in Cambridge, even as the population and employment grows. Mode share is shifting to walking, biking, and transit, and it’s a good thing.

Then you should be in favor of measures that reduce the number of cars on the road, right?

As someone who doesn’t and will never own a car, this helps me. It makes housing cheaper.

Sideswipes and doorings happen as a result of poor bike infrastructure, not because people don’t have parking in their buildings.

Not a developer. I don’t want parking minimums because parking goes underutilized in Cambridge and it makes the cost of living higher for everyone, including those that don’t own cars.

Inman Square isn’t a town on 128, thankfully

Too bad automatic enforcement is illegal in Massachusetts

Am I just insane or are people talking about a different Central Square here? Like I get that seeing homeless people may make you feel uncomfortable but people here are describing it like it’s a damn war zone.

They can pay for it at a complex that does have enough parking for them.

It’s not really related to what was said though. OP didn’t claim it was solely a Cambridge issue nor that Cambridge alone can fix it. The point was just that it’s a small number of people blocking things for everyone else. Splitting hairs over nothing here really

As of 2019, 28% drove alone to work vs 7% riding a bike to work. I imagine that the bike share has increased since then since there’s been improvements in the bike network and the pandemic got more people onto bikes as well.

It is the same bullshit though, just in each individual town in the region

It would be far more effective to just pay that money out to the renters directly then than the property owners