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Voting is bullshit here, thanks to the republikkklowns. I'm hoping when the VP becomes president, we can remedy some of that.
Your point on the cars. Your example country is 237 times smaller than ours. .42%. We have 342 million people compared to their almost 19 million. What works there won't work here. It would be great to step up public transportation but that's not the end all answer.
Nonsense. India's population is far greater than the US, and they can do better elections than the US. Saying that you can't do bicycle roads in the US because what works in the Netherlands doesn't work in bigger countries is, again, nonsense. Mexico is adding bicycle roads. Canada is. Why can't the US?
Where the hell are you? My city just added a bunch of bike roads, but that's going to work great in the country isn't it? Nothing like riding a bike twenty miles to town to grab some groceries and ride back in the rain or snow.
The vast majority of the population lives in small, medium, and large cities where you can easily commute the < 1.5kilometer / 1 mile walking, or the < 10 kilometers / < 6 miles on a bike Whether you go to work, a store, whatever, that's easy for the vast majority of people world wide. If done well, public transportation would be a great option for larger distances.
I'm not advocating banning cars outright, I'm advocating pushing sustainable transportation, we can reduce traffic by 70-80%, it's a huge chunk of CO2