The problem here is that discouraging people from driving is going to cause serious problems, because they aren't going to move closer: the housing is too expen

The problem here is that discouraging people from driving is going to cause serious problems, because they aren't going to move closer: the housing is too expensive. Just look at all the problems with housing prices in California in the news lately. Seriously, who really wants to spend so much time sitting in traffic? But in many places, it simply isn't affordable to live close to work, and the design of our cities makes dense living infeasible or impossible. This is a failure of government, and I don't see how it's possible to fix it because we aren't electing people who will, we're electing people who perpetuate the status quo at best.