Driving everywhere has been the norm for so long that people are simply incapable of imagining anything else. Add to that the huge amount of propaganda and astroturfing that will appear any time anyone wants to change anything about car centric infrastructure.
![[meme] It perplexes me how drivers keep voting against the very things that reduce traffic](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/89c7ff72-5bae-44cd-8703-fa7ac8bd0595.png){kind=link}
Driving everywhere has been the norm for so long that people are simply incapable of imagining anything else. Add to that the huge amount of propaganda and astroturfing that will appear any time anyone wants to change anything about car centric infrastructure.