(US Here) Even my more progressive friends won’t go downtown because every business doesn’t have free dedicated parking. Street parking is free for the first hour and when I still drove I had lunch with no problems that way 1000 times, but nope unless where they’re going has it’s own dedicated parking lot, they aren’t going.
Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories (www.theguardian.com)
Predictably, it’s the 15-minute-city conspiracy crap.