Don’t let the opposition discourage you, get involved and get even. Your city certainly has a transit advocacy group or three. Cleveland Ohio, of all places, is investing heavily in public transit, so your city has no excuse!

I mean, there are car builder kits.

The DIY urban transportation community has settled on an even more portable solution called the “e-bike.” It can tow a trailer of cargo or small kids, and makes city parking much easier.

Cycling, riding scooters, and walking outdoors are still fine, though. And requiring masks while riding transit was fairly effective. We need much stronger enforcement of masking and not riding with symptoms, though, in future pandemics.

Your personal multi-ton box degrades the environment, globally and on the streets it drives through, even if pollutes less by using electricity.

Why not both? I’m happy to avoid buying Amazon (do I really need to avoid walking to the store?) while advocating for crackdowns on them.