You all do realize that suburbs existed before the invention of the car right? American infrastructure is bad but it’s not irredeemable, the assumption that we can’t provide public transportation to these places because of a lack of resources is malthusian. And sure some places like the American Southwest and Florida are legitimately over human population carrying capacity due to climate change but in general the earth as a whole isn’t, and cities like Amsterdam are just as unsustainable as Miami since even though has one of those le epic reddit notjustbikes cityskylines approved infrastructure, both are below the sea level.
I think in general our message should be abolish the need to own the automobile, any measures meant to limit car use should target the rich before the poor. And that trains are good, and that a high speed train across the United States would be a rather popular project in the eyes of even the chuds. And by god stop calling for the suburbs to be razed, stop trying to be zoomer Robert Moses.
Fuck you, asshole.
Where I live the population growth rate is double the state population growth rate. We are booming (at the expense of all the little rural towns around us, but still) but about 77% of the infrastructure being developed is 4-6 occupancy suburban houses and duplexes, with the rest being top 10% income bracket apartments. My point is that they are developing entirely around cars. You can't pass a popular ban on cars in the city here without first developing infrastructure that isn't car centric, and the only way to develop non-car centric stuff is through politics, and the political councils of my area are completely dominated by the real estate interest groups who like doing these large or expensive development projects because it makes them more money than catering to affordable apartment housing with good bus infrastructure.
Manhattan is taking a different development route, with their development focusing on 50+ occupancy buildings, all over the income spectrum, with an already in-place transit system. Therefore, it might actually be possible to push for a popular car-ban. An outside shot, but possible.