What's wrong with just charging market rate for parking and road usage, i.e., just enough to so that there's always a few free parking spots and traffic flows at capacity?
Imagine that the city started charging for the 'free parking' everywhere, either through permit schemes or parking meters, created photo enforced no stop tolling for major highways and busy commuting corridors and reduced property taxes w/ low income exemptions for the new driving fees.
You would get a revolt even with the tax reductions.
Small localized new greenfield experiments like this is not political suicide for a city to approve.
That's not what I was implying.
* Wide right-of-way required for travel, stretching out cities, making walking impossible
* Pedestrian safety: driving successfully requires full concentration
* Both drivers and pedestrians experience stress. Traffic drives even the calmest to madness.
* The industries that support cars are vast and environmentally destructive.
The list goes on and on...