they want the people out of the suburbs and back in to the cities where they can control them more easily.
If you live in NYC (Manhattan) what do you need a car for? This assumes that you never leave a walkable radius from thier mass transit.
“they want the people out of the suburbs and back in to the cities where they can control them more easily.”
That’s the ticket. It would take a major change in thinking before there would ever be public transportation out in the boonies where I live. They recently converted two lanes of a six lane major road in the downtown area to bicycle lanes. I have yet to see a suicidal biker in the bike lanes.