I also sold my vehicle when the pandemic started. No job, vehicle needed expensive repairs, was starting work-from-home entrepreneurship-- it just made sense. I bought a bicycle that I've been riding 3-5 days a week ever since. It's my favorite belonging and I cherish it.

I live in the Spokane, WA area. Winter makes it very hard but I still ride as long as there's no ice. I do almost all of my grocery shopping via bicycle. Cycling is literally my anti-depressant-- when I don't ride for a couple days, my mood is cooked.

A car free city would be a dream come true. Often drivers speed by, pass dangerously and act so carelessly towards me. I think most don't know what it's like to be a cyclist so I forgive them. Sometimes drivers honk at me as if I'm an inconvenience. I imagine what their lives must be like-- caffed out on bean juice, leaving home with 0 float time, about to be late for work, cutting corners and lazily minmaxing their route to get to the office where they sit for 8 hours, chug some energy drink and nurse their high blood pressure with a stack of prescriptions.

IDK, I just have to come up with a person story every time I see a speed demon. Luckily it's not that often, but I like to think that someone in that situation would reap so many benefits from cycling to work themselves.

It would have to be voluntary though. People have to want it and I'm not about forcing people to change their non-violent habits. A couple years ago I saw a new city being constructed with the ground-up design of being car-free. I haven't checked on the progress of that, but I think that's the way to do it-- set the expectation that cars don't belong there. Then you get move-ins from people who want that environment.