> The fact of the matter is that long-term parking options in DC are so expensive that street parking has become a primary way people store their vehicles. It can be comically difficult to find street parking that isn't blocks away from the place where you actually live; if you take that away, what then?

Then people stop having cars or have fewer. That is a major goal for a lot of us, getting rid of the cars that make DC worse. Owning and using a car should be expensive and inconvenient order to discourage their use due to the damage cars do to the city.

> All new residential constructions should have some space allocated for parking; it doesn't need to be on a 1:1 resident-parking spot ratio, but new houses should have at least one space for off-street parking and all new apartment/condo buildings should have underground lots.

Why does there government to mandate very expensive underground parking? If people want parking more than it costs to build developers will build that and charge more to make money. If the customers don't want need parking and the developers know that why should they be forced to build and residents forced to pay for something they don't want.

This is a bad idea for a very simple reason. Adding more parking would mean destroying the things people travel to making the parking useless. Look around Dupont circle and you will not find building, parks, yards, etc that people would rather replace with parking. The relatively easy places to put parking: sides of roads, underground, and empty lots are gone or have much more valuable alternatives. Any new parking would involve destroying the things people like in Dupont or cartoonish expensive so it doesn't make sense.

In the end its driven by a dead simple fact, private cars don't work in cities. They require a lot of land for roads/parking relative to the number of trips they provide. Switching areas used for cars to bikes and public transit allows many more people to get where they want to go and tend to be safer, cheaper, and better for the environment.

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It's in the Bahamas, right?