While that is true in the abstract, it will take long to adjust.
modern city planners have realized that car centric cities does not scale. ie. if you want to city that scales to Tokyo levels it needs mostly to rely on transit schemes.
The US has an (alas, quite new) history of overindexing on cars. moves like this will drive the development faster than the market alone.
however, parallel to this, tax for roads in cities should be increased and passed on to car owners. (in Denmark we pay 150% tax on cars. and that is on top of the 25% VAT we already pay) - right now car owners are being handed prime land almost for free in the US.
Car-centricity is definitely a problem. In addition to what you point out, I'd love to see a move away from any kind of parking mandate and removal of street parking. If there is demand for parking, let someone build a parking structure which is more space efficient and honestly less frustrating as a driver as well.
I think the problem goes further though, but maybe once the fears of "congestion" are gone the fear of shadows and "becoming Manhattan" won't need able to hold us back
modern city planners have realized that car centric cities does not scale. ie. if you want to city that scales to Tokyo levels it needs mostly to rely on transit schemes.
The US has an (alas, quite new) history of overindexing on cars. moves like this will drive the development faster than the market alone.
however, parallel to this, tax for roads in cities should be increased and passed on to car owners. (in Denmark we pay 150% tax on cars. and that is on top of the 25% VAT we already pay) - right now car owners are being handed prime land almost for free in the US.