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The reason for congested rush hour streets is people driving to work (and/or dropping off kids to school). The work from home regime during the pandemic helped alleviate that, then there were complaints from businesses that they weren't getting the same volume of trade from workers buying coffees and lunches and shopping etc. during the day.
So if we want to do away with cars, then yeah - you need a transport system that will collect everyone from home, drop them right at their place of work, and then collect them in the evening and bring them back home. If everyone works in the same block of commercial development in one part of the city, that's easy. But people don't - they work all over, spread out. That's something that I don't see addressed; are you going to develop buses, trains and trams instead of cars, or are you going to make it "well they can come in on the commuter train, then get a taxi or Uber to work"? Because that's still going to have the streets full of cars at peak hours, except it's all Uber this time instead of people driving their own cars.
Again, the idea of cutting down driving by having people travelling in batches for peak hours because of work is not a bad one, but it's something that needs to be deliberately considered and planned for, not some kind of "we'll pedestrianise the inner city streets and then the rest of it will work out magically on its own, as both 65 year old women with arthritic knees and athletic 26 year old men whizz about on their bikes to get from A to B which will ever only be 15 minutes whizzing apart".
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