The "free street parking is my god-given right" lobby in NYC is an equally big issue. As far as I'm aware, it's the only city of its level of density in the Western world that has free street parking in the urban core, producing super weird dynamics for a limited resource priced way below market value. You could improve a lot of things by: 1) charging something closer to market value for parking; and 2) removing at least some of the parking entirely, turning the space currently occupied by rusting stationary metal (which is rarely moved b/c people fear losing their parking space!) over to more useful purposes such as loading/unloading zones, bike lanes, hell even some wider sidewalks and linear parks.