[throwaddzuzxd]

> charging a premium for unused land in desirable areas (parking lots don't house people)

Housed people need parking lots though. Tons of places are not, and never will be accessible with public transports. I live in a city with a great public transport network but I still need a car, as much as I'd love not needing one: I need to visit friends or family outside the city, I have to make bulk grocery shopping sometimes and bags are not enough, I sometimes buy big housing furniture, I even had to retrieve parcels outside of the city sometimes... Heck, even to go to work, sometimes I'm late, or I missed my bus, or public transports are on strike, or anything can happen that I need my car to save 1 hour.

> abolish mandatory minimum parking

Same as above, that's an awful idea.

[BlargMcLarg]

The majority of places where housing is a problem are places where it makes far more sense to go through the short term pains of minimizing car usage in favor of long term space optimization. Cars take an obscene amount of space when combining everything required to keep individual car ownership afloat.

Almost all the problems you present can be solved by planning differently. You don't need bulk grocery shopping with a shop open nearby in walking distance, available at least once every 3 day. Big housing furniture is a rare occurrence and can be delivered, or you can rent a car capable of transporting it. Punctuality can be solved socially. The main problem is density, and cities certainly don't have a shortage of population density.

Car ownership is a huge luxury with a giant price tag, and it's finally catching up to society.

[cesarb]

> I live in a city with a great public transport network but I still need a car

Your experience doesn't match mine. I also live in a city with a good public transport network, but I've never had a car, or felt much need to have one, or even to learn how to drive. For your examples (except the parcel one, which hasn't happened to me and I have no idea how it would happen):

> I need to visit friends or family outside the city

The friends or family I have which live outside the city actually live in other nearby cities. To visit them, I'd take a bus to their city, and then a bus or taxi within that city.

> I have to make bulk grocery shopping sometimes and bags are not enough

Every store large enough that I'd do "bulk grocery shopping" in it has a taxi stop next to it, sometimes even within the store's underground parking floor. So whenever I do bulk shopping on one of these stores, I simply take a taxi.

> I sometimes buy big housing furniture

Every store which sells big housing furniture has the option to send the furniture to your home using their own truck. You might have to wait for the next day (since they batch the deliveries - it's a big truck), but for big furniture, you usually aren't in a hurry.

> Heck, even to go to work, sometimes I'm late, or I missed my bus, or public transports are on strike

If I missed my bus, I wait less than 10 minutes for the next one. If I'm late, public transport is still faster than a car (or a taxi). And if there's a strike, it's true that having your own car might help, but when that happens (and it's not common enough to make it worth it to have a car just for that), the traffic slows to a crawl.

[turtledove]

Do you really need to own and park a car for the things you describe? Could you use a short term rental like a Zipcar? Or hire a taxi or Uber?

Or use a bike?