Moscow citisen here. You can make a reasonably well working mass transit that everyone will use. People would still buy cars to stay in traffic for hours. But

Moscow citisen here. You can make a reasonably well working mass transit that everyone will use. People would still buy cars to stay in traffic for hours. But the real long-scale problem is that cities discourage children. People living in a big city tend to have two to zero children and that makes country population unsustainable. On the upside, you can always find a good school for your few children if you care. In recent times I don't see many children on the streets. It seems that children are being turned into indoors pets. This is sad. Adults feel obliged to drive children around to their activities. The pedophile hysteria being promoted by media doesn't help either. In other word, it's sad.