>Fire up street view and look through residential neighborhoods: notice how many street parking spots and driveways there are?
Number of parking spaces means nothing without the number of residential units. Two lanes (one on each side) of street parking in a neighborhood that's all six apartment triple deckers is very different than two lanes of street parking in a neighborhood that's all single family homes.
Some of the most walk-able and bike-able places (at least in the US) still have street parking in their residential neighborhoods, there's just not much of it relative to the number of people so people use other options.
I was specifically responding to the “Where would you even be driving to or from in cities like that?” part — the huge demand for local parking makes it clear that many people have answers to those questions even if they're often “because the city has neglected transit infrastructure” or “the city chooses not to enforce traffic laws or design roads which are safe for non-car usage”.
Number of parking spaces means nothing without the number of residential units. Two lanes (one on each side) of street parking in a neighborhood that's all six apartment triple deckers is very different than two lanes of street parking in a neighborhood that's all single family homes.
Some of the most walk-able and bike-able places (at least in the US) still have street parking in their residential neighborhoods, there's just not much of it relative to the number of people so people use other options.
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