Well, that's complete baloney. You're either stupid or being disingenuous if you can't think of any other approach.
> What is your country doing to advance?
Well, we're still in the grip of motornormativity, but we are installing more active travel facilities to reduce congestion, pollution and lives lost, despite the extremely loud opposition from the car lobbies.
The problem with personal car-shaped vehicles is that they don't scale in built up areas. As more people drive, congestion builds up until mistaken planners decide to increase the width/number of roads. That entices more people to drive which then increases the congestion further. As more people drive and more space is taken up by roads and parking, facilities get spread further apart until they become only reachable by cars. This then feeds into the loop to increase car usage which increases congestion which leads to more roads and more parking. Rinse and repeat.
The thing armchair auto-focused urbanists don't understand is the infeasible cost of changing urban placement: because it accretes over decades/centuries.
It's trivially easy for a city to paint itself into a corner from which it's (financially) impossible to escape, with 'best intentions' at every step.
Next thing they know, major employment hubs are too far apart, with major buildings that cannot be relocated, without continguous right of ways, and... they're fucked.
It's instructive to look at how the Netherlands went from car-focussed design in the 1970s to their modern multi-modal designs nowadays. It just needs the political will, which in the Netherlands was helped with the Stop The Child Murder campaign (Stop de kindermoord).
Well, that's complete baloney. You're either stupid or being disingenuous if you can't think of any other approach.
> What is your country doing to advance?
Well, we're still in the grip of motornormativity, but we are installing more active travel facilities to reduce congestion, pollution and lives lost, despite the extremely loud opposition from the car lobbies.
The problem with personal car-shaped vehicles is that they don't scale in built up areas. As more people drive, congestion builds up until mistaken planners decide to increase the width/number of roads. That entices more people to drive which then increases the congestion further. As more people drive and more space is taken up by roads and parking, facilities get spread further apart until they become only reachable by cars. This then feeds into the loop to increase car usage which increases congestion which leads to more roads and more parking. Rinse and repeat.