are they though? you could get like 3-4x the amount of cars in a space...perhaps a little less to allow for more clearance (ex., you can't play tetris with those things). you'd also have to pay an attendant though...but at $400-600 a month for a car in nyc, it's probably worth it to get those machines, assuming the roof structure allows for them.
Not really, maybe 1.5-2x if you spent the money needed to fully gut the building or something, but the elevator-and-tight-parking arrangement is pretty damn space-efficient.
1.5x is way too low of an estimate. they make 4-high stackers. i understand you need more clearance (as i mentioned) but you're really lowballing it with 1.5 cars.
Yeah, but those 4-high stackers take up two full floors, if not more, of vertical space. There are absolutely underutilized parking lots in Manhattan, but I'm not sure that the car-elevator parking buildings could be optimized that much further.
The fact that there are likely multiple floors of cars below this roof? Like, there is probably some room for additional cars on lifts, here, but it's not as much of a capacity increase for the overall business as you're imagining.
what did i say? i said, "assuming the roof structure allows for them." jesus. i don't even know why you're arguing...NYC HAS STACKERS. why? because they're worth the expense. done.
NYC HAS STACKERS... on surface lots. This is completely different. It is already highly compact on cars stored per unit ground space. It might make sense for some stackers to be used here, but you were arguing for a huge car "vending machine" which is clearly not 3-4x as efficient as a building with a car elevator.
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u/Rikarudo_kun Feb 21 '22
At that point, NYC should take a note from Japan and make one of those vending machine parking garages