What would make this world into a Utopia?

A bit of social leveling for easier transportation.

Why?

Well, it looks like private transportation is over, if we’re going to survive.. Wealth has its heavy hand on the throttle on our environmental train wreck while riding in the first class dining car.
Unfortunately, they’re not really on any train, but congesting our streets with enormous chauffeured Escalades while adding the fevered traffic of biking indentured deliveristas bringing cosmetics, prescriptions of Adderall, and couture for the next museum Gala.
Meanwhile, bike share programs have been a great success for the class between Ubers and grim Public Transportation.
To help the traffic, I would suggest an alternative transportation, older than the bicycle, which may yet carry renewed greenwash value for Wealth: the Sedan Chair.
A fleet of sedan chairs could be set up in our cities, like NYC’s Citibike, with similar docking stations. (Of course, with attendants handing out linens and Svalbardi glacial water,.. like those charming ‘dames pipi’ in Parisian public toilets).
The chairs could be carried by Prep School students in their blazers fulfilling their ‘public service’ requirements while building varsity strength for the Ivy teams.
When they were most popular in France and England, sedan chairs proved very versatile because one could be carried directly into residences, right up the stairs to the chaise longue!
With their European/ ‘Chinoise ‘ pedigree and often opulent design, the chairs might be enormously popular in places like NYC’s UES. The chairs could be convertible or fully enclosed to fend off rabble.
Much more dignified than the tumbrel & with potential philanthropic chic.
(Includes a Congestion pricing exemption, just as with income tax.) James B.

Utopia Machine: Sedan Chairs, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 75 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.