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This isn't the way to get rid of cars. If public transit is still shit, people will still have cars. They will instead park on the roadside and be more unhappy that their parking isn't convenient.
A lot of European apartment parking is just a designated street parking space anyway. I'm not sure if that's the case in Barcelona, but I see it often in the UK.
Barcelona has great public transit and quite a decent bike lane network. I have no idea why people use cars in Barcelona.
Public transport in Barcelona is excellent
I only visited but it seemed very good to me. Up by the university I was astounded by how much they packed (subway, trams, buses going anywhere and everywhere.)
Public transport in Barcelona is great, and street parking for residents is also pretty affordable.
There is no way to get rid of cars without inconveniencing drivers, and they will have to be very inconvenienced.
Parking on the roadside (outside the official parking spots, which you have to pay for) will usually get you a ticket or towed ... free public roadside parking is mostly a thing of the past in most densely-populated places, really ...
Getting rid of parking is 100% the easiest way to get rid of cars. Maybe second easiest besides replacing roads with pedestrian walk ways.
Building efficient inexpensive public transit is the best way to get rid of cars. Otherwise you just have cars circling blocks looking for a parking spot.
They'll do that one or two times in a city before realizing it's better to take public transit in.
I knew people who would move their cars every week just to be able to drive out of the city once a month.
People do occasionally travel outside of metro transport coverage.
I think this is fine
It means easier rules for housing in a city that's mostly friendly to public transit and biking, which should help with the rising housing cost Spain is dealing with.
If you live in barcelona you aren't expecting to need a car anyways.
Oh no, not me, I'm perfectly fiiiine walking as far as necessary to get to my apartment from my parking space (says the people who are able to drive home in the middle of the day and park up for the night when everybody else is at work).
It's not just lack of convenience, it's behaviors: double parking, congestion, Oh I'm just going in for a second...