100% correct here.
Young people have been robbed of public space, and her solution to them finding even a facsimile of one to replace it is to... rob them of that too.
What do you mean "robbed of public space"? What public space was taken away? The only public space which seems inaccessible to me that used to be is: parks and sidewalks, both of which have become open air drug markets/tent cities. The city where I live has no parks I am comfortable taking my children to, and we actively avoid walking on the sidewalks because it's dangerous.
you have to pay exorbitant prices to be somewhere (the third place) in society with people. it's expensive to socialize.
The parks are unusable and the sidewalks are campgrounds for drug addicts. What is the link to cars here?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/10/21/the-other-rea...