[MortMan]

A very unhelpful excerpt.

It might be nice to have the city/cities identified.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Powers That Be continue their war against human liberty and choice.

The War Against the Car (against drivers, really).

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is the Left's Holy Grail. They despise the automobile because it means freedom.

Guess I'll be taking my dirt bike to work in -6 degree weather tomorrow.

[all the best]

No problem. After the government destroys the economy, nobody will be able to afford cars. Except for party bosses and commisars.

[plainshame]

Ban government not autos!

[Steely Tom]

They’re talking about Germany and the UK, as far as I could see.

[lentulusgracchus]

FYI, urban planners <sic> and the architectural crowd (remember, many of the Bauhaus people were Socialists) have hated cars with a purple passion for at least 50 years ..... I picked up an urban-planning magazine out of curiosity in 1964, and I was surprised by the venomousness about "strip" development and the ubiquity of cars and arrangments for their parking and storage.

Those people institutionally and intestinally hate automobiles ..... and, I gradually figured out, they hate the freedom and mobility that cars afford people, to escape the little cages the Bauhouse boys would have us living in, like the 500-to-700-square-foot rat cages LeCorbusier was designing for French peasants back in the 20's. How good of them to think of us.....

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Major cities consider going carless

Sounds OK to me.

I can't foresee any possible need to go into one of those filthy cesspools, ever again in my life.

[Huskrrrr]

Fine, more gas for me and my gas guzzler.

[bgill]

Germany is half the size of Texas with 5 times as many people and a good public transportation system. Austin, TX, treehugger headquarters, can’t get people to ride the new $$$$$ rail transportation. What might work in Hamburg ain’t no way gonna work in Texas.

[Publius]

When William F. Buckley ran for Mayor of New York in 1965, this was one of his suggestions for Manhattan.

[PapaNew]

Going green." Is that anything like "Soylent Green"? Words like "green" and especially "sustainable" (Agenda 21 anyone?) will become used more and more by both do-gooders and power hungry tyrants to try to force more government controls and less freedom here and around the world.

Of course, God made the earth utterly "sustainable" and man occupies a very small faction of the planet. "Sustainability" is a myth but no matter - it will be driven into the psyche of people the way "discrimination" has - all to weaken people's resolve to keep their individual freedom.

[Iron Munro]

No personal transportation - Makes it easier to keep the indentured servants on the plantation and under control.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve read that ancient ROME banned chariots on the streets in the daylight.

See what that got them?

[pithyinme]

Can you make a Prius bounce on the rear axle?

[ScottinVA]

I’m sure this has crossed de Blasio’s mind in NYC... ban autos, because nothing says “equality” better than ordering everyone to use buses and trains.

[trebb]

Step 1 - get rid of cars.

Step 2 - build special tunnels for all public transportation around, in and out of the city.

Step 3 - Build a wall and control the tunnels so citizens can't escape.