thx, good way of summarizing it, and I think I understand this state of affairs the same way you do. > To make a city difficult to commute into by car breaks .

thx, good way of summarizing it, and I think I understand this state of affairs the same way you do. > To make a city difficult to commute into by car breaks ... I think 90% of this is a mental fear. What we are really talking about in most US cities is just measures to overall calm car traffic; bike lanes, bump outs, some bollards, ... Small fiddly things which make city life meaningfully more agreeable for pedestrians, but the effect on drivers is all in all pretty marginal. Some slower top-speeds in the core, maybe parking a little further, ... It's incredibly frustrating to me that these small changes cannot even happen because suburbanites - at least, where I am - will not tolerate even the smallest material intervention. It's all gut feel. If miraculously one of these traffic calming measures does go through, it barely registers as a nuisance.