Why Europe is going 'car-free'

“Car-free” here seems to be defined as “large cities tend to have congestion charges and/or traffic management schemes”, which seems slightly alarmist.

I live in a city (Dublin) which recently made some very modest traffic management changes, with the result that the bus system has _dramatically_ improved (at least once Dublin Bus figured out that they had to change their schedules; there was a slightly farcical period where it was common for some routes to stop for 10 minutes to stay on schedule, because a key point that was previously almost unnavigable at peak times had become free-flowing).

The buses are the length of three small cars, and hold a hundred people. It just makes sense to give them priority, from a volume perspective if nothing else.

We’re moving to a future where average people can’t afford cars. America will be car free soon too. Maybe everyone will ride electric bicycles instead, but there’s no way an average household can afford a car in 30 years and in Canada we’re almost there already. We can hope for $10k Chinese cars can save us but the bigger issue is nobody can afford a driveway and public charging infrastructure is too slow.

A few people including most users on this site will still have cars, but you’ll be so happy with lower emissions, lower traffic, and more walkable neighborhoods that you’ll vote to keep the rest of us poor and immobile

Clickbait. Doesn’t definitively say why.