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>>amathe+(OP)
Can someone explain where this recent flurry (last 2 years or so) of anti-car evangelism has come from?

I can't help but feel that many people who now work remote and therefore don't need to commute suddenly are all for moving to mass transportation...that other people will use to get to work.

>>Workac+l9
A common expression is "parking is the third rail of local politics". More parking is the number one demand for every aged driver in City Council meetings and absurd parking costs the chief reason why development projects are cancelled.

Much of our housing shortage is directly due to parking minimums and its resulting tacit ban on high-density housing.

>>mperha+ib
the people against parking minimums live in a fantasy world

what you get is people parking on the sidewalk

what you get is people leaving garbage bins out all week to "protect" their spot

what you get is legit road-rage level violence over people blocking driveways or protecting spots or leaving cars parked too long

people have cars, they need a place to put them, even in fantasyland

>>0zemp2+Yc
Well now, this is an interesting take that you don't see applied to any other resource.

"If this harmful, expensive thing isn't free, a few people will steal it."

"Better make it free forever then, and force all of society to pay for it, whether they use it or not."