A lot of progressive leaning regions are actively trying to slowly legislate cars out of existence, see the camera system in the UK that's being sttacked by the so called "blade runners".
Fact is cars are real freedom, and the next time the government declares a pandemic and determines that public transit is too dangerous, a car is your only movement option for going outside of bike range.
the gubbermint is coming to steal our cars so we have to live in their bicycle dystopia 
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I thought this was made up for a second due to how based it is. Rare Britain W.
Yeah, it's fairly solid. Right wing newspapers are driving up a total huff about it to pretty good effect, so now it's up to each mayor to keep Labour in the mayor position in spite of the shitstorm the tabloids are pumping out about children with cancer needing cars to get to hospital.
There's also other problems like how some suburbs aren't that well connected by public transport, but also, just sell your fucking car? The government is literally giving you 2 grand to sell your car, and the prices of lots of these non compliant cars actually havent gone down that much because buyers in the countryside are ready to snap them up. Compliant car prices have gone up some, but I think this is a symptom of a larger problem.
The government needs to add more means tested benefits. Same shit as in lockdown - rich people got the same as poor people when really poor people needed more and rich people needed less. Why should David Beckham get 2 grand toward a new car, leaving a struggling family having to break the bank to upgrade to a compliant car.