That kinda makes my point stronger - I have only lived in those two cities I mentioned and yet I found their public transport perfectly sufficient for everyday

That kinda makes my point stronger - I have only lived in those two cities I mentioned and yet I found their public transport perfectly sufficient for everyday use. Despite of that, my neighborhoods were always filled with parked cars. I am using taxis at times, but rarely and I usually go out of my way to not use them at traffic hours, because then it's often much slower than going by train or tram (not even speaking about metro [Warsaw] or fast tram lines [Poznań], which are hard to beat even outside of traffic hours). Also, when I'm sitting in a public transport, I'm free to spend my time somewhat productively or even just relax by, say, playing a game on a console - while driving a car is tiring, stressful and you can't really do anything else at the same time, so it seems to me that it actually wastes much more time. And what you sometimes gain by traveling faster, you often lose searching for a parking spot anyway.