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This wasn't my experience when you cross-reference the systems (bus, tram, metro) and consider walking also works.

> would have been fifteen-minute drives

Yes, if everyone on Earth magically disappeared. If you've never driven in a dense city, it's often faster to just walk alongside the cars than be in the cars.

This is because, again, cars are so unbelievably space inefficient that the space saving of human people versus cars can make up for the multiple order of magnitude difference in speed.