Your entire complaint is about high rents, not about cars. If you had less intra city public transport and biking you would take even longer to get to your des

Your entire complaint is about high rents, not about cars. If you had less intra city public transport and biking you would take even longer to get to your destination in the city because now you’d be taxing the same roads with people who are going 2 kms via car instead of on a bike. Further, as happened in many American cities, entire neighborhoods would be razed to build highways and parking lots to support those cars further reducing housing capacity in the city center, and making housing even more expensive.