When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders
I don&#x27;t have a car and absolutely hate the car-centric culture of American cities (I live in SF).<p>That being said, this article is completely wrong and draws the wrong conclusions. People were anti-car early on because most people didn&#x27;t have cars. Later, people stopped being anti-car because most people had cars. The article would have you believe that at no point in time did the majority of people want car-centric city streets and that it was forced on them by a small minority of people interested in selling cars. That simply isn&#x27;t the case. Vocal opposition to cars faded away as more people owned them.<p>It&#x27;s important to understand the status quo correctly if we ever want to change things. The sad reality is that most people want cars, even in dense cities. As I look out my apartment window on a Sunday morning, with pleasant weather and a walkable green neighborhood, I still count far more cars going by than people on foot or bicycle. Hopefully that would change if we made it easier and safer for people to walk, but it&#x27;s not productive to pretend most people secretly hate cars.