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Absolutely impossible to implement where I live up North. Half of the town's cars would have to go. Which I'm all in favour of, but there's a lot to sort out first (e.g. public transport and cycling infrastructure). Or I suppose we could put up a bunch of parking garages everywhere but that would be awful.
around me there are quite a lot of cars that sit on the street and never seem to move, getting those off the road as as a start would help. Also plenty of places I see where there is plenty of space to park fully on the road, but people park on the pavement by habit
I just had an adventure on Google Street View dropping into random neighbourhoods, and it varies a lot by town. Some places like Leeds and Sheffield had wide roads that would have perfectly coped with a ban on pavement parking. Other places it looks impossible. Here's a place I dropped into in Bolton. Those people would really suffer from a ban. I guess this is my main issue with it, you're disproportionately affecting the less well-off. The middle class will be fine with their driveways and spacious estates.
would making it easier for people not to use their cars help? Better public transport, closer services etc? Do a lot of people have multiple cars just in case they sometimes need it.
Hopefully public transport helps, that's the dream. Maybe self driving electric cars make taxis cheap and people stop owning cars, who knows! I wouldn't expect the people on the crowded terraced estates to be the multiple car owning type, maybe two cars per household.
Not even "just in case". Where I live, there is one bus into town at 9:30, and a second at 3:30. Completely unhelpful for anyone who wanted to get to work.
We need significant better public transport for it to even be am option, at the moment its just a token.