People can see how highways affect development: you only need to look at any overhead view of any major city outside the pre-WW2 core. Metro Atlanta is full of

People can see how highways affect development: you only need to look at any overhead view of any major city outside the pre-WW2 core. Metro Atlanta is full of little outposts dangling off roads. Wandering around this mall was one of the only things to do growing up other than watch TV and mess around on the internet: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0657829,-83.986029,3799m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0657829,-83.986029,3799m/dat... Everything else cost money or was too far away. I think underdeveloped imagination is why so many people can't see that better transit options would have the same effect, but with increasing density rather than increasing sprawl.