Less densely populated areas rarely pay for their road maintenance costs. It's actually quite unsustainable. That 10 mile road leading to just a few houses cost

Less densely populated areas rarely pay for their road maintenance costs. It's actually quite unsustainable. That 10 mile road leading to just a few houses costs way more than is brought in by taxes from those houses. Public transit helps not having a car. That helps the environment and those that can't or don't want to drive. Most US cities have pathetic public transit to the point it is impractical (eg: buses running once every 2 hours and stopping at 6pm is not useful) Bottom line, I think this gets to the debate of car centric society. How do you do less densely populated areas in the american model without cars? I don't think you can. The problem with less dense and car centric is the 100 year upkeep cost is unsustainable