Comment by enaaem
8 months ago
Requiring proof that you have a parking spot should not be an issue. If you have a car, you need to put it somewhere right? Parking is generally private in Japan, so it comes at a premium. In western countries people expect that the government provide sufficient parking spots, but that's not necessary the most efficient allocation of valuable land.
It's the difference between drivers paying for their own parking or having it subsidised by non-drivers, along with the various issues caused by motornormativity (when you design around cars, you exclude walking/cycling etc).
Texas alone is twice the size of Japan with 1/4 of the population.
There’s little need for efficient allocation of essentially infinite space outside of urban areas constrained by geological features. And in those places parking comes at a premium too even in Western countries.
> There’s little need for efficient allocation of essentially infinite space outside of urban areas constrained by geological features.
Is that why highways that are 26 lanes wide are needed?
* https://roadstotravel.net/usa-katy-freeway/
They might not be saying it's perfect in all cases, maybe just giving the line of thinking that landed us at Katy highway :-)