I did not quote, but I did address "Make the alternatives better than driving."
You have things completely backwards, first you want to make everyone miserable, then hopefully they'll fix things.
> retrofitting car-oriented development to be viable for non-car users is exceptionally difficult.
It's actually not about retrofitting, it's because cars are just that good. Nothing else comes close.
> unless we begin by acknowledging that cars won’t scale up any farther
They'll scale just fine if we space out our cities a bit more.
It's actually pretty self balancing, when we run out of road space, people spread out a bit more. So there's no scaling issues, there's plenty of space in the world.
I mean if your goal is to pack people in like livestock then it doesn't scale, but that's not something I want.
> and that we have to redirect our efforts into things that will.
Such as? So far nothing exists. And I'm not just saying that. I tried it. I exclusively used public transportation for 1.5 months, in a city that is world renounced for probably the best public transportation of anywhere. (There was literally nowhere you couldn't go with public transportation.)
It was horrible. I feel really bad for anyone who has to use public transportation.
That's the reality.
If you want change, change that first. You won't need to tax cars off the road, they'll leave on their own.
I did not quote, but I did address "Make the alternatives better than driving."
You have things completely backwards, first you want to make everyone miserable, then hopefully they'll fix things.
> retrofitting car-oriented development to be viable for non-car users is exceptionally difficult.
It's actually not about retrofitting, it's because cars are just that good. Nothing else comes close.
> unless we begin by acknowledging that cars won’t scale up any farther
They'll scale just fine if we space out our cities a bit more.
It's actually pretty self balancing, when we run out of road space, people spread out a bit more. So there's no scaling issues, there's plenty of space in the world.
I mean if your goal is to pack people in like livestock then it doesn't scale, but that's not something I want.
> and that we have to redirect our efforts into things that will.
Such as? So far nothing exists. And I'm not just saying that. I tried it. I exclusively used public transportation for 1.5 months, in a city that is world renounced for probably the best public transportation of anywhere. (There was literally nowhere you couldn't go with public transportation.)
It was horrible. I feel really bad for anyone who has to use public transportation.
That's the reality.
If you want change, change that first. You won't need to tax cars off the road, they'll leave on their own.