We had a similar issue in Boston like 20 years ago. There was all this undeveloped land on the southern edge of downtown from closed down former port and industrial areas. Then the city wanted to redevelop it, but everyone complained about losing thousands of low cost parking spaces.

Now we see it was a good choice with an active newly developed part of the city and a couple additional subway lines. It really is better for most people to commute by train

The only real objection now is how could we have developed a new part of the city without building a subway there. Stupid bus is stupid