Car Ownership is Actually Rising Across the Board

Despite our planner's love for walkable cities and public transit, more of the urban poor are driving than ever. Cheap loans, rising employment, and the continued dispersion of jobs away from old urban industrial cores all push more transit users off busses and into cars.

https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-car-ownership-poverty.html

This all makes matters even more complicated. After decades of building a car-centric society , it will be hard to turn it all around. In a time of massive inequality and climate change, transportation policy is going to get really challenging:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/02/car-ownership-climate-change-driving-poverty-economic/582091/