Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.

"You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home."

In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.

In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.

What's funny is in my experience in the USA it's not that there are not busses but they take SOO much longer. I had a job that was 2.8 miles away. It took 7 or 8 minutes to drive there(depending on if you hit the one traffic light on red). Theres a bus stop outside the company. There's a bus stop on the corner of my complex. I looked up on the bus provider website how long it would take...9 hours each way.

Years ago I was living in a different state, a friend was throwing a new years party in his college house and invited me. His college was 3 hours away. I thought about just taking a bus since obviously we would be drinking. I checked the bus schedule... It would take 2.5 days with 4 change overs each way.

I ended up just crashing on his couch and drove home after I recovered from the hang over.

Its just not feasible to take buses here due to how long they take.

There is actually a parking garage below. But you are really incentivised not to come by car, but by public transport. The tram tracks are just out of shot.

It still blows my mind when I look at Dutch intersections in Google's street view. They managed to fit cars, bike lanes, and even commuter trains into their intersections without any issue.

On a christmas markets or similar action i usually go to drink som alcoholic beverages how does it work in us if you have to drive home?

The American mind cannot comprehend this

Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.

The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.

Sadly, from my experience in my German city we don't have the upper hand here. All streets in the city center are completely overcrowded between 4 and 10 pm during our christmas market season. Same with parking garages near the city center.

it seems the british mind also cannot, cos imgur's blocked here 🥀

The American reaction will either be confusion or envy, there is no in-between.

I'm the latter.

tl;dr yes there are parking garages nearby, at least in my city

America or not this is my nightmare.

That’s Dresden. The Altmarkt. Cool.