And put up a parking lot, said Joni Mitchell back in 1970. Of course, as Alan Partridge famously noted, Mitchell had forgotten to consider that the parking lot would have eased congestion on the outskirts of paradise. Although in fairness to her it was early days and it would be another nineteen years before Chris Rea would significantly raise awareness of transportation issues via the medium of music.
Anyway, here's a link to an interesting article about how parking lots take up an enormous amount of space in some place called 'America'. https://www.citylab.com/transportati...cities/565715/