You’ve bought into a strawman if you believe the intention is to remove all road infrastructure from an entire city.

So did every person who upvoted this article, apparently. And the person who uploaded it.

Imagine if every second parallel street were a grass strip, instead of a road. Fire trucks, ambulances, vans, etc could still drive down them as needed, and nowhere would be more than a couple of blocks from a road, but regular traffic capacity would be cut by 50%, and so would pollution.

This idea is a lot more sensible. It is NOT what is proposed in the article.

What the article proposes is the idea that I am arguing against, not your idea.