@LoliHat
These people do mostly have a point though. Especially this video, the dumb viral posts and comics usually don't. Cars simply take up a ton of space and don't always make sense or are used simply because there isn't an alternative even if there could be and basically every city has a traffic jam issue. And especially US infrastructure just plain sucks and it isn't just because of size.

I do hate the equation of "Car gets you places" and "Alternatives get you places" therefore they're equal.
Public transport is overcrowded and doesn't go to a lot of places often. If you go to place at an uncommon time you can be stuck there for hours creating ton of dead time. The solution proposed in the video is "spend more money on public transport". But what does that translate to? More bike lanes, more busses, trams etc driving more lines more often. But that just recreates the car problem. Because ultimately this is too many people problem, you just gave yourself wiggle room by shrinking the "traveling human" unit.

He also only talks about cars, but the infrastructure used by public services and primarily by trucks for transporting goods. They often love hating on the US interstates, but the interstates enable a gigantic chunk of economic output.

@matrix

One of the benefits of a car-centric city, suburb, &c. it that it limits density, which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

A lot of these people assume that people would prefer to live in a dense "walkable" city and that no one needs to or wants to, for example, carry a trunkload of groceries and a bunch of kids rather than walk to some overpriced bodega once a day every day just to avoid starving. They also assume no one would want to or have reason to go anywhere outside of dense "walkable" cities. They are basically authoritarian snobs who want to make everyone live like they would like them to live.

I also question his numbers and math (e.g. depreciation as a cost instead of lease/payment, claiming insane costs for simply parking on a street, &c.).

And no, throwing money at public transportation won't make it better, and it certainly won't make the people who use it all behave properly and politely.

@kilostere
His point is that there should be alternatives, not that you should ditch your car.

@matrix
there should be, but there arent