The weird thing is that it’s not. The author also touts congestion fees so that the wealthy subsidize public transit as a good thing.
It seems to just be a disorganized jumble of thoughts. He mentions hyperloop as an emerging transit technology for traveling around cities as if hyperloop is some kind of local bus alternative.
IDK about conservative, it'd paint it more closely as suburbanite idealogy. A lot of overlap, but not useful to confuse the two. It's the kind of quips I hear from people who only every drive into the city for a ball game or meetup.
But the article itself just seems confused about what a 15-minute city even is.
It seems to just be a disorganized jumble of thoughts. He mentions hyperloop as an emerging transit technology for traveling around cities as if hyperloop is some kind of local bus alternative.