Indeed, and I'd also recommend reading The High Price of Free Parking for all the ways we stupidly subsidize car culture. As a transportation activist, I'm use

Indeed, and I'd also recommend reading The High Price of Free Parking for all the ways we stupidly subsidize car culture. As a transportation activist, I'm used to drivers attempting to claim the progressive mantle by saying that a tech shuttle bus or proposed bikeshare station represents the privitization of public space, and then completely dismiss how free (that is to say, fully-subsidized) parking and cheap tolls do that to car manufacturers and owners and oil companies to a far greater extent. If OP answered yes, we could have an actual discussion. If they answered no, I'd know that further discussion was hopeless.