Free/cheap #parking is a terrible misallocation of public space, a massive subsidy to a subset of the population that results in making everyone's lives worse, yes, even drivers, who benefit enormously when a city actually has a well designed, safe, funded and functional #PublicTransport system. And parking minimums are another way cities are made worse by design.
Look into the history of almost any city over a certain size in a wealthy country without decent public transport and you'll find the destructive fingers of the auto and/or oil industry thwarting attempts at more efficient and just transport systems.
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