Editorialized title aside… the thing about parking is that in the US, we’re sparse and spread out and need cars in most places.

You want to eliminate cars? Build densely. Replace great swaths of our suburbs with medium to high density housing + commercial spaces where people don’t need cars to go shopping or eat at restaurants or grocery shop. Then you’re also dense enough to be able to support great public transportation. And then you can greatly reduce the number of cars.

It’d be great. I’d love to be able to walk^[well, roll, as a wheelchair user] to shopping and restaurants. I’d love to take good public transportation to my doctor visits and elsewhere.

But that requites a radical re-thinking about how we live, and then a radical re-building.

I’d be all for it - the cost savings of not owning a vehicle would be fantastic, and while electric cars wll help, congestion and pollution are even less of a problem with a great public transportation network.

Cities today are orders of magnitude larger (population-wise) than cities in the early 1900s and this is largely due to plumbing and fire codesn Parking is like an afterthought in terms of city planning of any size, usually.

Parking in most US cities is insane because of lobbying and corruption by the car industry.

The problem in the US is not size or distance or density. Its lobbying by car companies. In the US car companies have created not only a plethora of pseudoscientific parking laws but also import/export, safety and emission laws. None of which make any sense.