> Toronto is a wonderful place to live, with and without a car
> Life without a car in Toronto is tolerable
> Buying a car makes it much better / Life became 10x easier [with a car]
> Buy a car. I promise you'll love it
So, according to your experience, life in Toronto without a car is "tolerable" and it becomes "much better" or "10x easier" with a car.
If driving a car makes such a difference, isn't that all the evidence you need to argue that Toronto's car-dependent urban planning is, indeed, a disaster for everybody without a car?
> Cars unlock a huge amount of economic activity - employees and customers can now reach many more businesses, and haul more stuff back and forth, much faster than walking/cycling/bussing
That is only true in a car-dependent city where car traffic is facilitated at the expense of all other modes of transportation. This isn't theory, it is how it works in most of the developed world.
In a city that is designed to facilitate the throughput of people rather than the flow of private motor vehicles, having a car or not doesn't make much of a difference because other alternatives are just as fast and convenient.
> Life without a car in Toronto is tolerable
> Buying a car makes it much better / Life became 10x easier [with a car]
> Buy a car. I promise you'll love it
So, according to your experience, life in Toronto without a car is "tolerable" and it becomes "much better" or "10x easier" with a car.
If driving a car makes such a difference, isn't that all the evidence you need to argue that Toronto's car-dependent urban planning is, indeed, a disaster for everybody without a car?
> Cars unlock a huge amount of economic activity - employees and customers can now reach many more businesses, and haul more stuff back and forth, much faster than walking/cycling/bussing
That is only true in a car-dependent city where car traffic is facilitated at the expense of all other modes of transportation. This isn't theory, it is how it works in most of the developed world.
In a city that is designed to facilitate the throughput of people rather than the flow of private motor vehicles, having a car or not doesn't make much of a difference because other alternatives are just as fast and convenient.