I know "walkable cities" is considered a buzzword and urbanists are increasingly seen as preachy liberal wonks, but we're literally right. If you spend enough time in an American city outside the literal bubble of your car you will see people carrying groceries along the shoulders of freeways, running for their lives to cross a street, or waiting for an hour to catch a delayed bus. If you read local obituaries about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, they're not white tech bros in spandex but people in redlined neighborhoods without proper sidewalks. You spend enough time trying to own the urbanist nerds and oops, you start condoning a status quo that is overtly cruel and racist.
Framing humanism, environmentalism, and so on as something not worth caring about, or even worse, actively opposing it, purely out of spite for the people you made up, is just part and parcel of being a reactionary
Cars should not exist in urban city centers due to the danger they pose, they only exist as yet another subsidy for the suburbanites who want to live in a city but not have to see those kinds of people (see black and homeless people) in their neighborhoods. Because urban areas should be walkable and trains are far more efficient for long distance travel, leading to to us actively ignoring the real solution to our cities problems.
