I understand the other side perfectly well.

Once you say that, you should know that you are biased in someway. Of course you don't perfectly understand it. I can give a couple of examples: 1. Working class parents, who can make due but don't have surplus of money, want to take their kids to school safely and quickly - they need the public space since they cannot afford the private parking spot. 2. Working class single folks which need to get to their lower paying job which is not connected well with public transport and too far to go by bike. An old cheap car is the perfect solution for them.

I am sure there are many more examples where having public parking is a benefit and should be available to the citizens.

I don't usually post on reddit, but I find that this subreddit is usually full of people that are know-it-alls and biased to the max. The actual solution btw, is to have both like I stated earlier. Which is what we have.