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Originally Posted by Crawford
Right. Transit plays little to no factor in Little Rock's core form. The parking lots aren't there because of parking demand, they're there because parking is the highest and best use (i.e. there's no incentive to build anything so parking becomes an interim default).
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Um, parking is the highest and best use only BECAUSE there is strong demand for parking in downtown Little Rock.
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Transit usage, in affluent countries is mostly non-choice riders. So even if you somehow increased Little Rock's transit share, you would basically make downtown Little Rock slightly more accessible to poor people, which wouldn't move the needle on land use.
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Depends. If you "increased Little Rock's transit share" by raising Arkansas gas taxes to the point where a gallon costs $10, you'd totally move the needle on land use, as most middle class people would now choose to take the bus to their downtown offices, and many owners of these lots would not tolerate continuing to pay year after year for maintaining (remove weeds, etc.) these empty cash-flow-negative lots, so they'd be doing something with them eventually.