Yeah I agree. Another thing going on here, I think, is that we introduced all these new restrictive zoning laws, so new developments could largely only contain single family houses. And then all the new business districts have to contend with all these mandatory parking requirements the city imposed on them. It encourages people to sprawl out, live in a thinly populated suburban neighbourhoods, and drive everywhere they need to go. After ~80 years of this development pattern, our is now thoroughly car centric. This completely changes the feel of the city for the worst imo. It also massively increases infrastructure costs (more sprawl means more roads and pipes to maintain). So paving over the streetcar tracks was a bad move both literally and symbolically. It represented the city’s decision to go all in on the automobile.