would it even be possible to “de-car” a western american city?

if you were going to make suburban denver not suck (aka remove hard reliance on cars) how would you do it

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Here’s the thing though, Americans love cars. Walkable downtowns and whatnot, great. But also, I can get in a car and drive 18 hours and be in a whole new world and with my own owned personal transport! Amazing. 

You can’t de-car America because Americans love cars.

That ratiogang.com guy. EVMavericks #123.

That’s fine — but there’s a massive (about half) amount of the population that does not live in densely packed cities where the car is an essential and viewed as an expression of freedom. 

People generally don’t recognize how absolutely massive and spread out rural America is outside of cities. Europe has cities packed on top of each other by comparison. What works there isn’t a turn-key solution here. 

Now, once you get close to an urban environment would it be awesome to be able to park, take transit in, and have the majority of the city be accessible car-free? 100%. But my folks living out in the sticks will only let you have their cars when you pry them from their cold dead fingers. No one’s waiting for a bus or train to take them 30 minutes into town for groceries when they can transport and haul themselves and their cargo independently without relying on the efficiency (or lack thereof) of some sort of rural transport system.