City authorities are openly pursuing a policy aimed at making car ownership and use as difficult as possible, effectively forcing people to choose alternative modes of transportation, says Hildur Björnsdóttir, leader of the Independence Party in Reykjavík’s city council. She was speaking about a draft transportation plan for a new neighborhood in Keldnaland. The plan currently allocates only 2,230 parking spaces for 12,000 residents and 6,000 workers expected to commute to the area. Based on current car ownership rates in Iceland, approximately 7,500 parking spaces would be needed for residents alone. Björnsdóttir argues that this confirms what many have suspected—that the city council’s Social Democratic majority has a clear bias against car owners.