None of this changes the fact that there’s a limit to the number of cars you can physically pack into London, and that limit isn’t very high. Putting more cars

None of this changes the fact that there’s a limit to the number of cars you can physically pack into London, and that limit isn’t very high. Putting more cars in increases pollution, and makes it harder to walk and cycle, and reduces the number of people who can safely move around the city. Ultimately if keep adding cars you end up with a situation where cars are the only viable method of moving around the city, and of all the options available to us it’s objectively the worse. Boosting walking and cycling in the centre creates extra capacity on public transport, and non-intuitively creates extra space for people driving into the city as locals won’t be occupying space on the roads. Where I’m living in London household car ownership is about 30%, and the roads already struggle. It’s not like we can build more roads (which would just increase traffic), there’s no physical space to put the damn things in. To top it all off the population is still increasing. So either we can encourage people to use alternative forms of transport, and we build the infrastructure to support it like bike lanes, or what? We just sit in traffic for the rest of our lives? What’s you’re solution to a growing population and in a fixed space?