> Yes, urging people to walk/cycle/bus instead of driving around in single-passenger cars is exactly the same as filling your city with bears.

If someone says that managing programmers is like herding cats, retorting that programmers are not exactly the same as cats is not very helpful.

What is your actual counterargument? Why should we make driving worse instead of making alternatives to driving better?

Your confusing analogy about bears and wolves was the counterargument. I didn't find it a persuasive response to the original argument: "Every other city's experience with congestion pricing shows decreased car use in favor of alternatives. Effects on local grocery prices were minimal. And in the end, revenues paled in comparison to the health, infrastructure, policing, quality of life and economic costs of traffic congestion."

As someone who attends community board meetings in Manhattan, this seems to be the average attendee's opinion too.