What's so terrible about having convenient parking lots and open space near the center of your city...

What's so terrible about having convenient parking lots and open space near the center of your city? Why does this trigger Europeans so hard? It's not our fault that we have lots of open space to build big comfy roads and parking spaces, and you don't.

I don't think it's bad as such. Just inefficient. People live far from their place of work. Using so manycars pollutes the environment. It's not very aesthetically pleasing.
European cities need more parking, american cities need less.

It's a land-use preference. It IS inefficient, but in a country with a lot of energy resources, efficiency isn't as critical as elsewhere.

Still doesn't answer pollution provoked by that much traffic everyday.

Plus the US could easily afford decent Mass Transportation System in most of it's big cities

It's a waste of time to drive an hour to and from work everyday

You're literally just wasting land in the centre of the city
How can you not see that a building in the same place would make more economical sense?
You can make an underground garage just anywhere

>how do you want your city
>JUST put a highway through my shit senpai

No, European cities don't need more parking. We need to improve public transportation.

Public transport is perfectly fine where i live. Just need more places to park, people will inevitably want to use their car, they should be allowed to do so. What the US does wrong is that the people who don't necessarily want to use a car can't use public transport because it's shit. Throwing money at the bottomless pit that is public transport, won't change people's preferences at all when it's already perfectly functioning.

literally only vancouver is the only major north american city to not get pozzed by urban autoroutes

god this continent is a shithole

we need to go back and start over again