Part of the reason that public transit is so bad is because it's having to compete with cars in areas that cars really don't belong. In cities where cars are no

Part of the reason that public transit is so bad is because it's having to compete with cars in areas that cars really don't belong. In cities where cars are not such a big part of the mix, public transit gets a lot better. And of course, where density drops sharply and public transit becomes unviable, cars make sense. In any case, this is not about "getting rid of cars", so it's dishonest of you to reframe the argument in those terms. As very specifically noted, this is about sharply limiting to getting rid of cars in dense urban cores. Big, big difference.