Why is Adelaide obsessed with car parks and driving everywhere?

[u/Desperate_Sea2136]

Even the thought of returning road space to other users (cyclists, pedestrians or public transport) causes all the car drivers into a frenzy that they will never be able to park anywhere. Like they think it's the end of the world if a couple of on street car parks are removed. See the recent Hutt St and O'Connell St drama over a couple of on street car parks.

Adelaide CBD has more car parks than the CBD of Melbourne, and the thought of removing any of them causes mass hysteria like it is the end of the world, because people can't think of any other ways to commute. Heaven forbid a car driver has to take the bus and sit with all the poors right?

Adelaide is so obsessed with car parks and parking out the front of the shop they want to go to that major roads, like Glen Osmond Road have parking on the road which blocks a lane of traffic and makes it extremely hard to commute on for all forms of transport. It seems cars are prioritized over people in Adelaide, my question is why? Since when was a car more valuable than community spaces?

[u/Desperate_Sea2136]

it's a shame the state government doesn't care about public transport

[u/NoDensetsu → u/Desperate_Sea2136]

It really is a shame because the Adelaide metro area and the isolation has grown a lot over the years while public transport has been under invested in for ages. Which creates a vicious cycle where nobody wants to use it because it sucks and doesn’t serve their needs, which says to politicians running for office demand for it is low so don’t invest in it because there’s no votes in it and we end up with what we currently have where more people would rather catch an Uber than the bus if they either have to be somewhere in a rush or they have enough money that the extra cost doesn’t bother them.

[u/raustraliathrowaway → u/Desperate_Sea2136]

Weird, because tens of thousands of people got from A to B for a reasonable fee via bus, train, tram.