The comment you're reacting to is imho talking about the system of transportation, while you're talking about the people managing that system. Our preferences,

The comment you're reacting to is imho talking about the system of transportation, while you're talking about the people managing that system. Our preferences, choices and decisions have ripple effects. Maybe if we'd intentionally designed our society/environment differently, we wouldn't need so many highways, and so many people managing them.