True, the young ones living in a city or urban area are reluctant to buy a car, they use UBER txies, public transport and so on, up to the point they have children, when they discover a car is essential.
The young ones living outside cities and the urban sprawl know that there is no viable public transport and no UBERs, so they pass their tests and drive. Many would drive an EV, but they are as yet, unaffordable so they drive 10 to 20 year old small ICE cars, affordable and reliable.
Cities can tax the motorist up to a point, but we are already seeing public resistance around London and Canterbury. The leader of Canterbury council has pushed through plans to get cars out of the city centre but the result could be the Conservatives lose control of the Council, I read.
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HERESalisbury City Centre could do with a way to keep HGVs and through traffic out of the city, a ring road/bypass was planned in the 1990s but canned as unaffordable by John Prescott. Congestion is such that it can take 20 mins to drive 3 miles from home to the inner ring road, most of the time sitting in stationary traffic on the A36/Southampton Road.
It seems that everybody knows what they don't want, but have no idea how to achieve their objectives.
