Converting existing neighbourhoods into much better, designed to be car free neighbourhoods indeed inconveniences people who already live there and would like to keep their cars. Surely there are ways to reconcile this? No! Any compromise is communism.
Compromise...
You stated you want a car free neighborhoods and some residents want cars. Therefore you are arguing for the total absence of X while the other group wants to have X.
These are diametrically opposed goals so compromise is not possible.
I should live in a cabin far away from anyone!
Go ahead and get a large group of like minded individuals and either buy out an entire neighborhood or create a new one.
You know, the entire lack of any sort of willingness to compromise from outsiders is the main reason for the urbanism bubble. There's no reasoning with anyone outside the bubble, no matter what kind of olive branches you offer.
How old are you?
I am around 40 and I have seen what compromise does to a community albeit not with cars. Just look at gun control and all the compromise plans that resulted in significantly restrictive laws. Or the compromise San Francisco made in law and order.
"Today's compromise is tomorrow's loophole."
Anything even mildly car-free is so unthinkable that you'll just receive suggestions ranging from killing yourself, fucking off and to stop wanting things other people don't want. So why not preach to the choir and make the message even sharper and edgier?
Again, go move to NYC or some Scandinavian country. Singapore is pretty nice if not a little draconian. You can find persons with your beliefs and either buy out or even create your own community.
Now, why am I opposed to car free regions of cities. It forces me onto the shit heap that is public transportation and because the No Cars crowd is predominantly progressive, they will vote for other retarded policies that will make the transit system and shit look like below:
Now, if you can create public transit system and environment like that of Singapore (or within 20% - 30%) then perhaps people might be interested.
But let's be honest. Western culture does not have the ball to do so.
Finally, car free areas are just ineffective vs a car as it usually double the time it takes on public transit vs. a car. If a person was going to work but needed to drop off their kids at school, you have perhaps tripled their journey time.
Now the car free side might make suggestions to bring schools closer to these communities. Sure. But let's look at what else they want. They not only want dense development but mixed income dense development.
So suddenly your kid is in the same class as a bunch of unruly Nigglets but since disparate rates of punishment can be punished by the government , the Nigglets are allowed to run rampant.
If I wanted to go to the gym I like, I can't get there easily as I doubt the system will route an entire bus or run a metro train for my convenience. Such, I am stuck with the community one with again a bunch of loud unruly Niggers that is combined with the humid air of a packed gym.
If I wanted to cook dinner? Sure, I can go to the bodega / mini supermarket around the corner but one of the fresh vegetables I need is wilted or perhaps some items are just not available due to rampant theft in the city.
But wait, don't some of these issues happen in areas with cars?
Yes, but I can drive to the next store in 5 minutes rather than waiting 30 minutes for the next bus, then another 30 minutes for the return bus.
Look, create or buy out your own car free community and show the world how it's done. Convince me through your sheer greatness.
Until then, no.
