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I live in a car-centric city, and am relatively civically engaged. Speaking from personal experience, for most of the people in charge, it's not that they're unwilling to change; it's that they're so indoctrinated from having grown up in American car-centricity that they don't understand the problem or the alternatives enough to realize that there's anything to change to. They're like the people in this thread, who think "infrastructure" means things like adding EV chargers to suburban-sprawl parking lots or trying to get public transit to serve neighborhoods of single-family houses. They have no comprehension of the scope of the problem, which is that the Suburban Experiment is a failure and that the geometry of low-density, car-centric development makes it unsustainable, unaffordable, and unhealthy, regardless of how you power the cars.
Even when they support things like transit-oriented development or abolishing minimum parking requirements, they tend to think it's the exception to be implemented in certain areas instead of realizing that it needs to be the default way we do things now.