Maybe I was just hallucinating and imagined adding extra hurdles to vehicle ownership. I think that's what scares most people away when it comes to freeing up public space.
I am all for walkable cities with proper bike infrastructure and railed transit. But I feel it is an important distinction that we try not to make things harder on the 'other end', and instead concentrate on new city infrastructure being created that focuses on being friendly to everything besides convenience motorists.
So like everyone can still get a car, just make it not really worth it, in a good way. There, I solved world hunger.
Not in this case. Real life is accidentally so shitty, it makes for passable satire. I mean if the dude would've conciously pulled it off, I'd almost be okay with him.