Got into an argument with another person in a different internet forum.

His basic schtick was:

He didn't want his tax dollars spent on designing or changing his community to make it more liveable. Meaning he didn't want money spent on cycling infrastructure, more transit which the latter he never uses.

This is what he said to me :

I know your plan. Provide (cycling) and mass transit free benefits. Then remove parking spaces. Its damn hard to have a car... if there is no place to put it. This is done with the full wisdom and knowledge that if government subsidies poverty... they create it. Soon the percentage of the population that can even afford cars... or the freedom to travel about will dwindle.

Then whatever the powers-that-be decide should be the price to move about.. will be the price. In your plan for the good people of Canada... in thirty years they will need a cycling license, another license for the bicycle, a toll ticket for the government provided paths and lanes, and a bicycle parking permit.

Restrictive social class governments that seek to limit the abilities, imaginations, and freedom of expression and movements of its people has always created refugees. We will welcome your refugees. Thank god... America has Detroit.

Basically government intervention, planning and legislation just sucks for him. That cycling to him = poverty/less monied folks