Interesting opinion on pages four & five of Sunday New York Times, Sunday Review, July 12th, 2020 – “The End of Cars”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/sunday/ban-cars-manhattan-cities.html
The author, Farhad Manjoo, ends with the rhetorical question, “Given these threats*, how can American cities continue justify wasting such enormous tracts of land on death machines?”
*Extant threats which he enumerates, all stemming from the same cause – a lack of accessible physical space!
And this piece from Susanne Rust of the Los Angeles Times: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bicycles-have-enjoyed-a-boom-during-the-pandemic-will-it-last-as-car-traffic-resumes/ar-BB15Xj7l
