My take is: if anti-car brigades want to have a sane discussion about reassessing the centrality of (especially ICE) cars to American life and how we might migrate to something better as climate change increases to be a problem. Ideas like city cores being converted to car-less does make some sense to me.

But honestly it just feels like an anti-car brigade, fueled by zoomers angry that they can't afford them where they want to live, so they scream to the heavens that we must ban all personal transportation now.

Drive around anywhere in the US - anywhere - outside a city core or pre-planned retirement community and there is no plausible way forward the seriously reduces the demand - let alone the need - for personal vehicle transportation.

And additionally, I'm sorry but not all of us suffer from such a paucity of imagination and optimism that the only solutions we advocate for are "FORCE everyone to diminish their quality of life because of MY social equality goals!". First, because I'm not so naive as to think that would ever work, and second, because I believe we can solve problems like climate change through moving forward, not trying to regress.