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What are you doing about it? The market seems to have already decided...
Loads of positive stuff is being done to fight car culture, and unsurprisingly alot of people on here are involved.
School streets across London are keeping kids safe from road death and toxic particulate emissions. Low traffic neighbourhoods are encouraging people out of cars. The railton road scheme, near where you used to drink, has brought a measurable reduction in overall motor traffic.
Safe segregated cycling infrastructure is being rolled out. More families now feel safer without a tank to take their kids to school.
The ULEZ is punishing the owners of high emission vehicles.
More High streets like Peckham rye and northcote road are being closed to private cars.
All this stuff is happening because people want it, and we know they want it because they talk about it, all the time, in public spaces like this forum, and vote for people to implement this stuff.
Maybe attacking SUVs and letting tyres down is tokenism. Personally it's heartening to know there are people across the country who have realised what a disaster the private motor vehicle is for society. SUVs are the loud, violent visible face of that disaster and anger in part drives our determination to bring about structural change.
The whole free market argument about cars will soon sound as nuts as it does when applied to cigarettes or burning coal. The market is wrong.
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What are you doing about it? The market seems to have already decided...