I've heard this referred to as the "cycle of autodependency". This graphic describes it well. https://imgur.com/Kuu4j8m https://imgur.com/Kuu4j8m Once you've

I've heard this referred to as the "cycle of autodependency". This graphic describes it well. https://imgur.com/Kuu4j8m https://imgur.com/Kuu4j8m Once you've created an auto dependent city it's really difficult to undo it. Surrey, the biggest suburb of Vancouver, is trying to shift from being a car centric suburb to building its own compact downtown. It will take decades to change development patterns. They're trying to jump start it by creating their own LRT system, but of course due to auto dependency there is push back because LRT will "get in the way of the cars..."