Cycling Activists Try Opportunism

[The Crow Whisperer]

Why do the People With The Correct Opinions(TM) despise cars so much?

Is it because cars cause pollution? Well, we improved catalytic converters and took the sulfur out of the gas, and reduced smog.

Then they moved the goal posts from smog to global warming and then to climate change. But Mancini said we are to be forced out of our cars, he didn't say forced out of our gas or diesel cars and into EV or hydrogen cars, he said CARS.

If cars are bad because they cause traffic congestion, then build more hiways and roads better to reduce congestion. But the planners are deliberately causing congestion. Mancini said "congestion is a tool we can use to force people out of their cars."

So if the problem isn't smog, climate change or congestion, then what is it? The answer: the problem is the car itself.

Simple: Cars = freedom.

Central Planners and Social Engineers really do just cannot stand the idea of the common man owning a private car, that should be a privilege reserved for Party Members only. Private car ownership = people can't be cowed into behaving the way the planners think they should behave. The People With The Correct Opinions expect everyone who lives in Clayton Park to ride their bikes to the Lacewood Bus terminal, park their bikes in the palatial extravagant bike shelter, then ride to bus downtown to work or school. But people say "F that I'll just drive." That drives the Planners Crazy.
Why do we have "Quiet Streets" and Local Traffic Only neighborhoods now? Remember when we had freedom to move in our own country on the roads we pay taxes for? After the pandemic is over do you think they will end the Quiet Streets and Local Traffic Only Neighborhoods?