Study Finds Parking Availability Encourages Driving – Study recommends imposing maximum parking limits, not minimum.

Study: If there is parking, they will come

Fewer people in San Francisco would drive if they didn’t have parking available, according to a San Francisco State University study.

The study found that residents with access to one or more parking spaces at home were almost twice as likely to have cars as their counterparts in buildings where the ratio was much smaller.

The exploratory study sampled only a small group of people at handpicked buildings around The City, but it provides a good backbone for further research, its authors said Thursday.

"Fewer parking spaces also means fewer car trips," explained author Elmer Tosta, in presenting the findings to a forum at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association this week.

By Marisa Lagos
Staff Writer

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