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Parking laws are a big driver of why everybody drives cars in America
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It's two-fold: lots of parking, and lack of good alternatives. If we just reduce parking requirements, but don't provide safe, reliable alternatives (eg quality public transit and bike lanes), you get angry drivers and sad (or dead) cyclists.
absolutely - my hope is that businesses would rather push for public transit rather than buy more land and slather it with hot asphalt, if given the choice.
Of course they would! Public transit funded by the taxpayer is always going to be cheaper than privately funding parking. It would be a beautiful way to align interests to get business owners siding with urbanists to finally get more transit built.