I think you rode that little hobby horse way further than it’s able to take you.

In the mean time, I’m off to the beach. It’s 15km away. Shall I take my bike and ride it on our nice safe bike paths? Or will you arrange the sea to get brought closer to me?

public transit is how you get around without a car

Except later in the evening when many lines stop or get very infrequent. Catching that late movie? Walk home.

Getting the kids in public transportation in a hassle. Teaching them to bike and have a safe environment for them to bike in is more fun.

Cargo bikes to move groceries, little kids and other stuff is easy enough. Getting those groceries on public transportation is not that easy.

And a bike is usually much faster to go over one or two stops instead of waiting for the bus.

Both public transportation and bikes have their use.

Some cities are car-centric because we designed and subsidised infrastructure to make it so. We induced a demand for cars by spending billions on building, expanding, and maintaining highways to the point that people hop in their car for a 2km trip. People now have no choice of transport other than a car, and that's a problem. It's literally killing us and our children whowith road violence, lung cancer from emissions, and via our climate.

Your steakhouse metaphor is akin to the entire city consisting almost exclusively of steakhouses. But why bother changing it, all cities are designed only for steakhouses. You don't get a choice to eat other cuisines because it's so inconvenient to go across town to the one Greek restaurant.

everyone agrees that beef production is bad for the environment.

not inherently

To reduce the amount of consumed beef, you have to change the restaurant.

has that ever happened? during the mad cow disease scare, there was a decrease in production that necessarily led to decrease in production, but production has climbed almost unfettered since then.