We have P+R also in France, in Paris it’s called parking relais, there is 83 of them with 23000 parking spot. But even in smaller town (I live near Grenoble and there is P+R, sadly not use at is full potential because public transport in some are not up to pace, but its getting better) It is still a good idea :) hard to implement well, and it need a lot more that just parking spot to be useful.

Parking is not a solution. Because of induced demand, if you make it easier to take a car more people take car instead of public transport and you are back to square one in worse. Parking is also a very inefficient use of space. More than 10 square meter per car for véhicule that stay unused it build up quickly. It seems easy but it’s really not.

Sure parking + public transport outside city is not that bad. But it is more a bandage than a real solution. I work in planning in France, believe me parking is the first go to solution for decade it never worked.

American is not a language. And no we don’t love American food we barely call it food. For the rest we are too dependant it’s true but it’s evolving and in my country (France) we are ready to moove on. We have a defence industry and il not sur companies will view the usa as a stable market anymore and will devert from it.