Cars need special roadways with expensive construction methods, maintenance, signaling and provisions for parking their bulk.

This takes up huge amounts of space that could have been used for waking streets, bike paths and attentive urban spaces, instead of large expanses of boring black asphalt.

Ask a shop owner whether she would rather have thousands of people in cars driving by her store and not even look at it, or hundreds of pedestrians who stop and look at her display windows.

Ask a cafe owner whether he would prefer to have his outside seating right next to a major thoroughfare, or on a busy walking street.

Cars actively make environments hostile and uninviting to people.