Parking

A modern village is one that has parking on the outskirts, so that you can drive to it, park on the perimeter, and walk in, to hike, run, cycle or other. It also includes affordable slow chargers where you can park for as long as it takes to charge to full.

Such a village is modern because it reduces the need for traffic to transit through it. If people can visit the village without driving in, then it becomes like Italian citadelles, but also like carcasonne, Yvoire and other villages and towns. Even Morges has this, to some degree.

Today I had to go into Geneva to do something Initially my plan was to drive to the Parking St Antoine. As I got towards Secheron and the P&R parking I thought, “I have time, I’ll park here and walk the rest”. I did park, and then I did walk.

I know that some people drive the car and park as close as they can to where they’re going, even in town. In my case I did things differently. The P&R parking is designed for people who take the train, or who stay for a while but want to pay less.

I rarely go to Geneva for two reasons. The first is that there is rarely a compelling reason to go into Geneva, except for work related things. The second reason is that Geneva is expensive to get into.

To get to Geneva and back, by train, will cost 9.40 CHF. According to a parking cost simulator the price comes to 9.50 for parking a petrol car, and five CHF to park an electric car. I think that this is as well as the cost of charging the EV.