Adam .Well, first, please keep in mind that what matters is the overall transportation mode share of public transit, walking and cycling combined..The pandemic has shown that roughly 1/3 of workers can work from home a fairly high proportion of the time..Second, there is a book "The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup. It is a classic, standard urban planning text..It is well worth your time to read..Electric cars do not solve most of the high cost problems of car ownership in built-up urban areas..Cars monopolize too big a geographic and financial footprint for the ridiculously small amount of transportation they deliver. .Even if you are not burning gasoline, that cost per passenger-seat-mile is astronomical. Much of that cost has been shifted to taxpayers through public subsidies..For example, the cost of "free parking" on a city street amounts to a public subsidy of $ 10,000/year (+/-) per parking space. The land value of the parking space often exceeds the price of the car..In the average city, there are four parking spaces per car..That reality has profound consequences for land use and the cost of provision of public services..We have spent a century subsidizing the burning of gasoline, directly and indirectly..Remove the subsidies so that the market sends more accurate price signals, and Adam Smith's invisible hand will work faster and more smoothly than you might at first imagine.

Adam .Well, first, please keep in mind that what matters is the overall transportation mode share of public transit, walking and cycling combined..The pandemic has shown that roughly 1/3 of workers can work from home a fairly high proportion of the time..Second, there is a book "The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup. It is a classic, standard urban planning text..It is well worth your time to read..Electric cars do not solve most of the high cost problems of car ownership in built-up urban areas..Cars monopolize too big a geographic and financial footprint for the ridiculously small amount of transportation they deliver. .Even if you are not burning gasoline, that cost per passenger-seat-mile is astronomical. Much of that cost has been shifted to taxpayers through public subsidies..For example, the cost of "free parking" on a city street amounts to a public subsidy of $ 10,000/year (+/-) per parking space. The land value of the parking space often exceeds the price of the car..In the average city, there are four parking spaces per car..That reality has profound consequences for land use and the cost of provision of public services..We have spent a century subsidizing the burning of gasoline, directly and indirectly..Remove the subsidies so that the market sends more accurate price signals, and Adam Smith's invisible hand will work faster and more smoothly than you might at first imagine.

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