Re: EU totalitarian update
If some town wants to shut off their downtown and build streetcars, at their own expense, more power to them. It's one of a myriad of choices localities can make, and I've been in towns that have done it. My own town remodeled its entire downtown street, for the better in my opinion, but didn't shut out cars.
But it should be terrifying to most people to have someone make this kind of decision for every city in an entire continent.
It doesn't seem to be. More grist for the mill.