How difficult is parking in Shenzhen to lead to such a tragedy?

According to the Shenzhen Traffic Police report, at about 17:00 on April 19, 2020, Zhang was driving a light enclosed truck from east to west in the parking lot of Yuhai Xinyuan Community, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, when he collided with A pedestrian named Cheng (female, 8 years old) who was crossing from south to north collided and was crushed, resulting in a traffic accident in which Cheng was injured and died on April 21, 2020 after hospital rescue failed.

At that time, the little girl was chasing and playing with other children on the road in the community. When she rushed out of the vehicle parked in the middle of the road, she happened to hit a van that was passing normally on the other side. Such a tragic scene occurred.

When we look back at this accident, the traffic police’s evaluation is: the child’s ignorance, the parents’ indifference, and the driver’s blind spot.

However, even if this little girl is replaced by an adult, will this tragedy be avoided?

Not necessarily.

The culprit of this accident was a private car parked in the middle of the road.

It can be seen from the signs on the ground that this road is a fire escape and parking is prohibited. These private cars parked here resulted in a blind spot for both the little girl and the van driver. If the view of these cars were not blocked, the little girl might have been able to see the vehicle involved, and Zhang could have detected the danger signs in advance. As long as either of them could take measures in advance, the accident could have been effectively avoided.

The car owner’s illegal parking and the property owner’s negligence cost an eight-year-old girl her life.

But when we blame the car owners and property owners, we must also clearly realize that this is only the superficial cause of this accident. What is the deeper cause, we have to think about it? Question: Why do these private car owners choose to park illegally?

While everyone is sympathizing with Shenzhen people over Shenzhen’s housing prices, Shenzhen people’s difficulty in parking is rarely mentioned.

According to the 2017 Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission’s survey report on the city’s parking data, there were only 1.92 million marked parking spaces in Shenzhen, while the number of motor vehicles in Shenzhen reached 3.18 million as of September 2016, with a ratio of 0.6 , which is far from the national standard (the "Urban Parking Planning Standards" stipulates that "the total supply of motor vehicle parking spaces should be controlled between 1.1-1.3 times the number of motor vehicles"); at the same time, the basic parking spaces mainly for residential use are only 1.36 million, the ratio between the two is only 0.4, which is also far lower than the national standard that "the basic parking space demand should be equal to the number of urban motor vehicles."

According to the latest data released by the Shenzhen Evening News in January 2020, the number of motor vehicles in Shenzhen has exceeded 3.5 million, and there are only 1.69 million planned parking spaces in the city’s commercial parking lots, leaving a rigid gap of nearly 200 parking spaces. Ten thousand.

What is the concept? More than half of the motor vehicles in Shenzhen have no parking spaces.

Moreover, Shenzhen’s motor vehicle ownership statistics only include Shenzhen brand vehicles. Don’t forget that there are a huge number of foreign brand vehicles in Shenzhen.

As we all know, Shenzhen began to implement a car purchase restriction policy at the end of 2014. From then on, if you want to get a Shenzhen license plate, you must either gamble on luck or gamble on bidding. If you can't afford the gamble, then you can only get a foreign license plate. This has also led to the phenomenon that many people working in Shenzhen have foreign license plates.

Although the official statistics of vehicles outside Shenzhen have not been announced, based on relevant reports, we can roughly estimate:

According to the monitoring of the Shenzhen Traffic Police Big Data Platform in December 2016, The average daily number of motor vehicles traveling that month was 1.72 million, including about 1.22 million vehicles from Shenzhen and 0.5 million vehicles from other places. According to a simple and rough estimate based on this data, the number of foreign brand vehicles in Shenzhen is 40% of the local brand vehicles, nearly 1.5 million.

Shenzhen has nearly 5 million motor vehicles, but only 1.69 million operational planned parking spaces. There are more than 3 million rigid parking spaces, and more than 60% of motor vehicles have no parking spaces.

So where do those cars without parking spaces park? Should I park on the roadside at the risk of being fined 500 yuan at a time, or park in an open space in the community or even on a fire escape?

Why is there such a shortage of parking spaces in Shenzhen?

The rapid economic development and the entry of private cars into thousands of households are naturally the A side of the reason, but the B side is the emergence of problems in urban planning that cannot be ignored.

1. The standard of parking spaces is low

Residential parking spaces (also called basic parking spaces) are the basic plate of urban parking spaces and the most important component of urban parking spaces. , according to Shenzhen parking space data in 2017, residential parking spaces accounted for more than 70% of the total.

However, there are serious problems in Shenzhen's planning on such an important basis for people's livelihood.

At present, Shenzhen’s parking space planning mainly refers to the "Shenzhen Urban Planning Standards and Guidelines (2018 Partially Revised Edition)". This document provides relevant information on the construction of parking spaces for different regions and different types of projects. regulations. Among them, residential projects are subdivided into single dormitories, unit residences, independent detached residences and affordable housing.

Taking the most unit-type residences with an area of ??60-90 square meters on the market as an example, the policy stipulates that the standard for parking spaces is 0.6-1.0. For example, if a community has 1,000 residences of 60-90 square meters, then this community should be equipped with 600-1,000 parking spaces. Is this ratio appropriate?

At this time we need to take a look at the motor vehicle ownership rate of Shenzhen households. According to the 2019 Shenzhen Statistical Yearbook, the number of registered households in Shenzhen at the end of 2018 was approximately 1.15 million. Even if Shenzhen license plate holders If the ratio of Shenzhen households to non-Shenzhen households is 1:1, then the number of motor vehicles owned by Shenzhen households will also exceed 1.5 million, which means that the average number of motor vehicles owned by Shenzhen households exceeds one.

What's more, those who can afford a house in Shenzhen have relatively good economic conditions, and the car ownership rate of these people should be higher than the average.

Looking at it this way, the ratio of 0.6-1.0 is obviously on the low side.

However, in terms of the already low ratio, if the community is located within 500 meters of a subway station, this ratio will be reduced to ≤0.48. In other words, if the community in the example above is next to a subway station, the number of parking spaces will not exceed 480.

It is under such planning standards that the Yuhai Xinyuan Community, where the accident occurred, has a total number of 205 households, but only 110 parking spaces, and the vehicle-to-household ratio is only 0.5:1. This is a community with a unit price of more than 70,000/㎡, and the total price of any apartment is more than 5 million.

2. Losing 100,000 yuan to build one

If the urban planning issues did not lead to such a tense situation, the developer’s profit-seeking became the last thing that broke the camel’s back. A straw.

Unlike most places across the country, the buying and selling of allocated parking spaces in Shenzhen is not allowed.

After the developer sells the house to the owner, the property rights of the parking space are automatically transferred to all owners. This means that real estate developers in Shenzhen are different from developers in other places. They cannot achieve greater economic benefits by building parking spaces. Even for them, every time they build more parking spaces, they will lose less money. Earned nearly 100,000 yuan.

Therefore, in the rough development stage of real estate, developers will try to reduce the number of parking spaces within the scope of the policy. Since the parking space standards given by the Shenzhen government are within a range, then they will The lower limit of the range can reasonably be taken.

The serious shortage of parking spaces has not only become a shortcoming in Shenzhen’s transportation development and a problem for residents’ travel, but has also endangered the personal safety of residents.

Fortunately, the parking issue has been taken seriously.

In 2015, seven national ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Urban Parking Facilities" requiring accelerating the construction of parking facilities.

In 2017, Shenzhen was listed as one of the first five pilot demonstration cities in the country to promote the construction of urban parking lots, requiring the construction of parking facilities and parking information platforms in public facilities concentration areas. A key direction will be tried first.

In 2018, the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission issued the "Shenzhen Parking Facilities Construction Special Plan (2018-2020)", launching the "Hundreds and Tens of Projects" for parking facilities, including the construction of hundreds of public parking lots. Projects, parking capacity expansion in thousands of old communities, and 10,000 roadside parking spaces. It is planned to promote the construction of more than 100,000 parking spaces by 2020 (excluding 350,000 for supporting construction), focusing on alleviating the problems in areas with concentrated public facilities and old buildings. Difficulty in parking in old residential areas.

Unfortunately, Yuhaixinyuan was not included in this old community parking expansion project. If it had been, this accident might not have happened.

On the other hand, the real estate market has cooled down and entered a stage of healthy development. As homebuyers return to rationality, it also forces developers to change. Carefully polishing products and improving the living experience through reasonable supporting settings have become an increasingly important factor for developers. What is more concerning is how many parking spaces can be provided to meet the needs of the owners instead of whether there can be fewer parking spaces.

With the dual efforts of the government and social capital, the problem of parking difficulties is expected to be gradually alleviated, and tragic accidents like this can also be prevented.