This is a tired and unhelpful refrain. Only rich people fill their cars with gasoline without wincing at the price. Only rich people get to own 7 houses. Only rich people get to fill their pools in the middle of a drought.

There are a lot of things that “only rich people get to do”. Reducing the number of people who engage in destructive activities is a good thing, even if it means only rich people can still do it.

> An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

- Enrique Peñalosa Londoño

I've lived in Paris for 20 years without even having the driver's license.

Correct. Rich people can easily afford the congestion charges and higher parking fees. These policies impact working class people more.

How many working class people would be happier and less stressed if they had high-quality transit to replace their car bills?

I go to Berkeley Ca often on weekends. As a kid we'd go to SF too because why not. But now it's another $8+ for the bridge, and even if you find street parking it's another $2 an hour anywhere you might want to jump out for a few minutes. Basically it's an extra $20 to get the opportunity to spend your money in SF. So now I haven't been to my favorite coffee shop or pizza place in years. Oh well.

No. Rich people zoom in to work and take a stroll to the market on Saturday morning, and they enjoy tapas a the quaint Bistro on the bank of the seine.

Driving is for plebes