It's important that there be easy access to downtown, but private vehicles only need to be the method if there aren't more efficient alternatives. But options like mass transit and active transportation are much more efficient in terms of land and energy use and congestion avoidance.
If sufficient parking was paramount for the development of office towers, then Manhattan, which likely has more office towers than the next 5 largest city centres combined, would obviously look much different.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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