This is a really interesting comment. I never considered that people would see the removal of cars from dense CBD areas as a sort of slippery slope towards remo

This is a really interesting comment. I never considered that people would see the removal of cars from dense CBD areas as a sort of slippery slope towards removing them everywhere, and that context helps explain why they believe in the 15 minute city conspiracy. As an Australian it seems obviously ridiculous to remove all cars, given that huge areas of the country are necessarily unreachable by anything else, but it would actually be pretty feasible to remove privately owned passenger vehicles from the inner suburbs[0] and make public transport free. I'm not even sure it's a bad idea. [0] This is a dialect-specific phrase and "suburb" in Australian English means roughly what "neighbourhood" means in American English, but I'm not sure what the American word for "somewhat dense ring around the very dense centre of a city" would be