When your city starts ripping up streets to plant trees and add bike lanes, be sure to point out that it’s blatant cultural appropriation!
I am old enough to remember when most towns in America were full of trees.
Few towns had medians except for in front of government buildings. The trees go next to the roads not on them, and bicyclists were expected to learn hand signals and yield to cars and pedestrians.
You’re imagining your fears rather than a return to the sanity which prevailed before the late sixties.