> The idea here is to nudge cities away from car-dependence, If that's the goal then this is exactly the wrong way to achieve it. What you do instead is you s

> The idea here is to nudge cities away from car-dependence, If that's the goal then this is exactly the wrong way to achieve it. What you do instead is you start with a decent transport network and people gradually give up cars - most superfluous cars are second and third vehicles in the family and are there because there's no alternative. If every household had just one car, the ownership rate would be less than 500 per 1000 people. Personal anecdote: there's a town next to a hill about 30km from my place where I used to drive regularly - used to, because just 1.5km from my apartment there's now a train stop and a recently reopened line that goes every 1.5h. Point-to-point the trip takes roughly as long, the tickets cost twice what I would spend on fuel to get there and you have to be punctual but I still pick the train because it's a nicer experience. If someone tried to "nudge" people from driving there by reducing the number of parking spots, people would just not go there. Bottom line is if you want to solve problems, solve them - not make them someone else's problems.