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 .
The government doing stuff is bad and always leads to 1984 vuvuzela, unless the stuff the government is doing is building a new interstate in which case that’s maximum 1776 freedom.