Traffic engineers and planners have been wrestling with this problem for decades, but there are no easy solutions. Take for example: For one thing, planners mi

Traffic engineers and planners have been wrestling with this problem for decades, but there are no easy solutions. Take for example: For one thing, planners might simply plant trees throughout parking lots I've seen trees planted and traffic islands erected to break up the lot, but then a drunk driver takes out the tree, or a snow plow takes out the island and it's just cheaper to pave over the hole rather than planting another tree. Not to sound like the tone-deaf transit advocate that I am, but "rethink parking lots" really means "rethinking the automobile" (either through expanded transit, or something like self-driving cars that can drop you off and then leave, although that's a solution that's 20-years away minimum).