I haven’t owned a car in several years. I can walk to my local grocer, pharmacy, gym, dozens of restaurants, job, extended family, and many more places in less than an hour. I just biked to get my Covid shot at a place 4 miles away. It took me 25 minutes to get there as I breezed passed gridlocked traffic on the way up. If I had taken a car it would have likely cost $20+ and taken over 40 minutes.

If you think ‘need to’ doesn’t needs quotation marks, try sitting through a few local community board meetings focused on re-allocating free parking for anything more useful :)