Most Americans flip out at things like replacing street parking with bus lanes, or allowing for higher density zoning than detached single family houses in larg

Most Americans flip out at things like replacing street parking with bus lanes, or allowing for higher density zoning than detached single family houses in large lots. We're a million miles away from "draconian" measures. I've been to Sweden a couple times and they're not exactly laboring under the authoritarian boot of multi-modal transport. If anything, the fact that most places in the US de facto mandate car ownership to do anything is far, far more draconian than providing residents with a variety of options. I don't deny that cars are tremendously useful, but we've nevertheless managed to overuse them.