"The city has been denying there's a war on cars for a long time," he previously told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson. "It's very explicit that there is indeed a war on cars when you dig into this growth plan. There are all kinds of stuff in there about how they want to turn street right-of-ways into parklets and cafes. It talks about how cars are the least efficient use of streets. There's also some policy changes that … have some far reaching effects on Seattle and across the whole region that will increase congestion instead of battle congestion."