Why is there this assumption that everyone lives like some of you do in London, NYC, San Francisco, Boston and other large trend-setting cities where you can ri

Why is there this assumption that everyone lives like some of you do in London, NYC, San Francisco, Boston and other large trend-setting cities where you can ride a bike to and from your pad and shit all over people driving cars? This article makes no sense to me having previously lived in a fairly large Midwestern city where a typical wait time for a bus is half an hour in the 'burbs with no other options but driving my own car. Public transport has to be a commonly efficient way of transportation everywhere before we even begin discussing taking parking away.