Baby Steps

Matt Yglesias posted about the possibility of solving our parking problems, and hence removing parking requirements as an obstacle to denser downtown development, by...

Having a fleet of automated cars. Really. Automated cars don't need to sit in a parking spot while you shop, sleep, etc. So they can drop you off and leave. That way, we won't need so much space for parking in cities. Then we can build more densely, creating walkable communities where parking isn't that needed anyway. 

I suppose anything is possible. But if we want to use "technology" to solve our planning and transportation problems, maybe we could start with getting the trains to run on time.