Thiis article is doing some real mental gymnastics to come up with this BS conclusion. The reason is because the city infrastructure planning is so atrocious that our government keeps building tunnels and bypasses to avoid it like the fucking plague. On top of that, even when you do have to drive into the inner city, parking fees are extortionarely high under threat of towing or heavy fines. I would rather take a 50c train in and walk half the city any day than waste overpriced fuel dealing with that shit.

PS: The residential parking requirement was because the housing bubble is cramming more families into shoebox homes with nowhere to park. Would not be surprised if there were property investors backing tthe study.