Having basic services within a 10-15 minute walk is one thing (and in general shouldn't be hard to achieve with sensible zoning etc.) but it's the trips many of

Having basic services within a 10-15 minute walk is one thing (and in general shouldn't be hard to achieve with sensible zoning etc.) but it's the trips many of us regularly to get to work, to visit friends/family or access larger shopping centres etc. where there's little choice but to drive that concern me. That people will put up with being stuck in barely-moving peak hour traffic often for hours each day to make such trips really speaks to the poor quality of the alternative options, but seems to me an inevitable consequence of our collective decisions about where to live or work that are based on unrealistic assumptions about the practicalities of always being able to get where you need by car, and that governments will continue to massively prioritise infrastructure projects to support it.