@pezmico
Absolutely. I wish more parking-obsessed businesses understood this. Every car in your city represents about $8K flying out the window instead of being spent on rent, goods & services.

@pezmico except thats not how math works. In Detroit it would already cost less for the city to buy every person who rode the bus even one time in the year a brand new $40,000 car than to keep funding SMART, but yet, tax payers keep footing the bill for a service that very few people use because it "doesn't go anywhere" there's a real "last mile" problem. It might work in places like Bejing, I don't know, but in the Midwestern US its stupid to have public transportaiton at all.

@pezmico They'd also push urban planning in the direction that pretty much every urban planning expert would have it go, rather than in the opposite direction. Probably also sack all the council planners who don't have an actual urban planning credential. I've met too many who have generic degrees in things like geography. The system stacks the odds against doing a good job.