[giyanani]

Road/car dominance wasn’t exactly established in a free market either.

There’s a whole host of subsidies for building/maintaining roads paid for by everyone [1]. There’s the regulatory advantages driving has (ex: the common zoning requirement that new construction ensure enough parking space [2]). There’s the negative externalities of highways/roadways. (Ex: the health impacts of pollution[3], and the health impacts of sitting in a car rather than walking/biking (part of the way) to their destination [4])

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/23/drivers-cover-just-51... [2] https://www.planning.org/planning/2018/oct/peopleoverparking... [3] https://theicct.org/new-study-quantifies-the-global-health-i... [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744747/