You seems to have missed the context of this comment chain. We were discussing cities. I have no idea what a "metro" or "downtown" is.

> I’d be careful about extrapolating these results across cities. In most American cities, for example, I’m going to replace an e-scooter with an Uber.

I also never said modern cities, I said "the modern world", of which India would generally not be considered part of. I may have defined that poorly though, my bad.