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Not giving new properties parking demonstrably works in reducing car use.
The harder you make it to own and park a car the more likely people are to use alternative transport.
Some will park on neighbouring streets, but this will make it harder for the people living there to have cars so they might decide to use the bus.
It doesn’t matter how good public transport and cycling / walking infrastructure is, if it’s easy to drive people will drive. Google Stevenage, it has amazing cycling provision that no one uses because the roads are too good.
Hefty-
I live in an ex-council flat, and our car park is about to get parking restrictions courtesy of an external contractor.
I have to say I can't wait - the sooner they tow away some of the 90s vintage eyesores that haven't moved for years, the better.
The biggest problem for on street parking is the HGVs though. They park with one set of wheels on the pavement, blocking it and also destroying the surface. Grumble grumble.
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It can work if you put a residents' parking scheme in place in neighbouring streets. That needs a bit of political nerve though. Down here in Bristol there's huge opposition to RPZs. I'm not sure why, when we lived in an area with one it was great.
inappropriate_bike
Vanneau
This is becoming more of an issue now - large developments with minimal parking in inner urban areas are being presented as 'sustainable' on the basis that, "uh, well it's the centre of town so they won't need cars will they?"
Of course what happens in practice is you just get hundreds of cars cluttering up adjacent streets, or chugging to the local Waitrose.