This article and some of the comments in here come off as extremely entitled to me. My background is I grew up in the suburbs away from any major city (closest

This article and some of the comments in here come off as extremely entitled to me. My background is I grew up in the suburbs away from any major city (closest city <200k people) and now I live walking distance to work in a major city. I still have a car, but I don't need it, and some of my coworkers don't have cars. The author never shows anything but correlation between transportation method and demographics. It's much more likely that wealth determines your proximity to work / transportation method than vice versa. This whole article just seems like a thinly veiled "I ride a bike to work and I hate cars -- they probably all voted for Trump cause they're poor and uneducated. Why don't they just get rich and smart and then they can walk to work and we don't need cars anymore and we can all live next to parks?" > “But it is increasingly clear that in addition to wasted time and productivity, reduced quality of life, and even fatalities, the automobile takes another toll. It may be that cars are not only the chief destroyer of our communities, but are tearing at the nation’s political and social fabric.” I posit that cars allowed population expansion because resources across a larger area became accessible and that we would have less people in existence if Fordism never happened. So blaming that innovation for wealth inequality is like blaming mass food production for wealth inequality. Why doesn’t everyone just have their own garden with chickens and quinoa? Why would anyone ever eat fast food? Why would anyone eat processed foods? 
 > “The car and car-dominated infrastructure propelled suburbanization and white flight. They split our society into white, affluent suburbs and poor black and minority cities.”

What? I’m pretty sure cities are segregated also, sometimes intentionally in history. This comes off as a pretty weak argument, but I could be convinced with more evidence.