Fuck Cars
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Banning cars is stupid. The goal should be to make cars the least viable option. Plumbers, electricians and roofers might be an example of people who need cars and that's fine.
We're always going to need exceptions, look at ambulances. We need roads that go to your house because who knows what tragedy may befall you. You might only need an ambulance once every ten years, if that, but we still want high quality roads that go to your house.
and to do every day business
If the streets people live on are small and slow, and the streets connecting those streets are big and fast (and not gridlocked or something), you have already achieved that in walkable cities. But in less dense areas that wouldn't really be a solution. I totally agree with you, but the car doesn't cause the same problems everywhere, neither are the solutions to those problems. Yes the car should be the least viable option, but the closer people live together to more easy it is to have a financially interesting alternative.
the major problem is too many cars going far too fast
My point is that the too fast problem is a problem experienced everywhere that can be fixed everywhere, but the too many problem is only experienced as a problem in the denser areas (that includes sub-urbs imo), and is very hard to fix in the rural areas.