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Downtown Spokane, Washington. The red areas represent surface parking lots, while the purple ones indicate parking garages
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And most of the cars that use that parking are in use for maybe 2-3 hours per day. The rest of the time they're just taking up space.
We really need to get people to abandon personal cars. Even if everyone switched to electric cars we'd still need all this parking space. We'd also still have all the microplastic pollution from their tires.
There's a catch 22 though. A lot of people feel like they need their cars because there's no alternative. Because of that, they oppose any law that could make cities less car-centric because it makes it harder for them. But, that just means they continue to need their cars. I don't know how that can be fixed.
Where I live, most people have cars. But a) they're cars, not trucks; b) parking is highly restricted, mostly to multi-story garages. Since parking takes up less space it means that walking distances get much smaller, which means you don't need the car as much.
Laws helped cause the parking lot issues.
https://youtu.be/OUNXFHpUhu8
Would honestly love to live in a building or neighborhood that maintains a fleet of cars to share. I can't afford to operate a truck/van as a daily driver (and I honestly hate driving them), but I often find myself wishing I had a large vehicle to move stuff around in.
In many places there are car share services. Zipcar, Communauto, Flexicar, etc.