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原文传递 Trying to make sense of highways and transport in the UK

题名：	Trying to make sense of highways and transport in the UK
正文语种：	eng
摘要：	Parking is a term that originally, according to popular history, meant adding trees and landscaping to streets - literally parking the streets. According to Deeproot, the US Congress passed a law in 1870 that allowed the city of Washington DC to use up to half of the street width to create 'parks for trees and walks'. It is also reported that at the time the Senate was debating the best place for (tree) parking within the street cross section - the edges being preferred to the centre. It's a fascinating pre-car proposition and, like streets themselves, the term has been appropriated by the motorisation of the last 100 years to mean places to leave cars on streets. In the UK, (car) parking has remained a hot topic for the last several decades and while the fuel mix is shifting to electrification, the entrenchment of entitlement to park and the appropriation of space is tightening its grip with controlled parking zones, permit bays and electric charging points. Getting from an uncontrolled to a controlled parking situation is often lengthy and costly, and requires political capital to be expended. Once space is reserved, it also becomes harder to change this new status quo. If people have been sold a driving dream challenging that dream leads to rather a lot of dissonance, which is hard to cut through.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	Highways
卷：	91
期：	5
页码：	58-58