There isn't a traffic crisis, there's a sprawl crisis. Cars are terrible, we know perfectly well how to make human habitats that don't require $8k/year 2-ton de

There isn't a traffic crisis, there's a sprawl crisis. Cars are terrible, we know perfectly well how to make human habitats that don't require $8k/year 2-ton death traps. Cities though have a problem of allowing much more surface area than people can reasonably traverse. You don't want traffic in your city? Fine, stop adding subdivisions. We're not farmers. We benefit from other people, not from land. Stop this fantasy that everyone can have a country estate 15 minutes from the city center. It's geometrically impossible. Nobody needs to use time "efficiently" by going 60 miles an hour. If you can't reach what you need on foot or bicycle, that is a land use problem, not a transportation problem.