@wtypstanaccount04 is this your king???
To back up what @wtypstanaccount04 is saying, I don’t drive but I still rely on highways to get to my job. I make $33k a year and spend maybe 1k a year chipping in for carpool. Carpooling is the cheapest option; public transit would cost 50% more and would double the time of my commute.
At this point our entire civilization is car-centric; to replace cars will mean radical civilizational change. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about setting that change in motion, but it will involve abandoning and/or rebuilding most of what was built over the last 110 years.
Japan isn’t the ideal, but I think it’s up there in terms of human-centric planning.
It’s politics aren’t as great though :disgost: