> The constant removal of roads and introduction of clean air areas in recent years has made his commute very difficult now. Western cities in the 20th century

> The constant removal of roads and introduction of clean air areas in recent years has made his commute very difficult now. Western cities in the 20th century ignored all the tradeoffs presented by cars, so that any time there was a conflict of interests cars simply won. Every time. Of course, the tradeoffs didn't go away. We just declared cars the winner in every case. A re-evaluation of those priorities is going to necessarily mean driving gets marginally harder, because there was no other direction for it to go. Cars were given every single affordance for 100 years. Anything in the opposite direction is going to look like a loss. Frankly, I doubt that driving in your area is actually all that difficult. You're just used to being prioritized and now you're experiencing a modicum of de-prioritization. You're used to rolling up to your destination and parking directly in front for free. Now that you're being asked to pay some of the actual costs of that convenience, it looks like a burden. You're used to cars being allowed everywhere, no matter the cost to the people who live in those areas you formerly breezed through, and now that they aren't, it looks unfair. When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression, as they say.