Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

One does not always have to switch immediately to a car-free household. It would already be a great achievement if the majority of households went from two cars to one car. And the goal is much easier to achieve, because for that you don’t have to catch the [Rufbus] to Hintertupfingen at 4 a.m.

Call buses? You can't be serious. We're not in a developing country

They actually exist here. It's called an on-call shared taxi (AST). There are certain routes and times offered and you call and say "Hello, I would like to travel the route from x to y at... o'clock (fixed, not freely selectable) tomorrow." And then the AST will be ready accordingly and you travel there with the ticket that would also be valid on the bus.

No problem. I have the solution. It’s called a car! Because unlike the green ideologists, I don’t have a problem, but the solution. They always find a solution where there is no problem.

Do you drive a car after the 4th beer with friends?

Here in the Ruhr area, there are [them] everywhere despite the centrality of everything and also despite the fact that everyone has a car. Much cheaper than a taxi.

The demand is high. That means the market signals that a need wants to be met here.

“Developing country” is thus a surprisingly unmarket-oriented statement.

That individual mobility does NOT create problems can be disproved live in any traffic jam where 1.3 persons per vehicle are stuck. I don’t even need to bring up the emissions for that.

It is the most expensive and inefficient form of mobility. But it satisfies our need for immediacy and “me first.”

A human need, I also drive a car, sometimes simply for the reason that I want to go somewhere and don’t feel like having fellow travelers.

But I wouldn’t come up with the idea to say that satisfying needs is never problematic because it stands for prosperity. Because that is obviously nonsense.

I didn't have a car for a long time. Certainly not affordable for everyone, but besides [Anfruftaxis] there is also carsharing, which works really well. Often a car is simply just convenience. For the baker, for example, in many cases a bicycle would be enough, or you go on foot.

Do you drive after the 4th beer with friends?

Here in the Ruhr area, there are [them] everywhere despite the centrality of everything and despite the fact that everyone has a car. Much cheaper than a taxi.

The demand is high. That means the market signals that there is a need to be met here.

“Developing country” is therefore an amazingly unmarket-oriented statement.

That individual mobility causes NO problems can be disproven live in every traffic jam where 1.3 people get stuck per vehicle. I don’t even need to bring up emissions for that.

It is the most expensive and least efficient form of mobility. But it satisfies our need for immediacy and “me first.”

A human need, I also drive sometimes simply because I want to go somewhere and don’t feel like having fellow travelers.

But I wouldn’t come up with the idea of saying that fulfilling needs is never problematic because it stands for prosperity. That is obviously nonsense.

Well, one simply keeps a private car as redundancy. And that often seems necessary, as impressively described here. I personally live in a village of 6,000 inhabitants. It’s 40 km to work by car, partly on a highway. I need 35 minutes in the morning by car. Currently, however, I drive 20 km to the nearest train station and then take the train to work. Fortunately, my workplace is right at the station.
A few years ago, I worked in the same city, also 40 km from my place of residence. Back then, I would have needed over an hour by train, tram, and walking. So about twice as much time. I consider that disproportionate.
Creating and maintaining redundancy is always expensive, by the way. What happens if you don’t create redundancy has recently been seen in prices in Germany.

Otherwise, in my opinion, cities may very well be free from individual traffic. Commuter parking lots around the city in a star shape, increase the frequency. Then also expand the frequency and offerings of public transport within the city. Only this way can it work.

In the small town of Köln and in the surrounding area, the public transportation infrastructure is sometimes awful. To work with [SPedelec] 20 minutes, motorcycle 20 minutes, car 25 minutes, public transport 1h20min! What do you think one would not take?