Ending the massive subsidies for cars and pollution would go a long way. Most cities have huge amounts of space dedicated to subsidized car travel and storage,

Ending the massive subsidies for cars and pollution would go a long way. Most cities have huge amounts of space dedicated to subsidized car travel and storage, simply asking drivers to pay for what they use would go a long way towards improving the balance, as would removing legal requirements for continued subsidy. In the United States, even a bar owner who doesn’t want to encourage DUIs is still usually required to subsidize driving. Much of the cost to transit and active transportation projects is often also car-related as those projects are forced into complicated engineering challenges to avoid taking any space from driving. If you want to roll out transit easily in almost any North American city, converting a single street parking lane into a dedicated bus lane is very cheap, and the revenues from less-subsidized off-street parking will pay for much of it.