Cars and their infrastructure take up a ton of space which could in theory be used by actual people.

In practice that space ends up being used to cram in more people rather than giving people more living space.

	▲	itishappy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed! However, another way to look at that is that some people are willing to give up some space for a more convenient location. We're not running out of space quite yet.