This is capitalism. First they monopolize our infrastructure to force us into dependency, then jack up the cost of their created need, driving out and demonizing all alternatives. Not naturally but through power, influence, and countless billions in lobbies.
If car ownership feels impossible, now consider that getting around the city by any means feels impossible. If you're in a car you're stuck in traffic, if you're on a bus you're stuck in traffic, if you're on a bike you're stuck in traffic, and if you're on foot you're not allowed to walk anywhere.
Somehow people have been convinced that the only way to get around all this car traffic is to induce more car traffic, and further demonize other means of transportation and their users. This complete disassociation from reason and logic doesn't come naturally, it was paid for by the auto industry.
@tk And they are tearing out bike lanes for the same justification, as well as opposing rapid transit bus lanes (which currently can't even exist where I live due to this opposition).
Note also that "slowing down cars" doesn't slow down traffic for drivers, or the time to get from point A to B. It just makes traffic more safe and consistent for everyone.
Which is why the Provincial legislations to tear out bike lanes in Canada are being met with Supreme Court challenges for being unconstitutional; because they are intentionally endangering people's lives.
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Neil E. Hodges