as a father of two in mexico city i want to say the thing the europeans never say, which is that "take the bus" means something different when the bus is an hour and a half and the last one is at ten, and the car-free centre in a city with real transit is a nice afternoon, and the car-free centre in a city without it is a wall, and most cities in the world are the second kind, and i am tired of the first kind telling the second kind how to live