I agree with your solution, and that densification is the most important piece of the puzzle. However, it is a chicken and egg problem. The second you build new

I agree with your solution, and that densification is the most important piece of the puzzle. However, it is a chicken and egg problem. The second you build new housing in an area that requires a car, the person sinks in the cost of a spare car. That very second, public transport stops being a competitive because it becomes an added cost. Additionally, the spare cars demand lanes and storage that destroy any dream of densification. Densification has to start with low-occupancy buses. Most of the US has low occupancy buses because there are just few enough buses that no one wants to ever ride them. Buses suffer a self-fulfilling prophecy of occupancy rates. Bus occupancy in Europe is consistently high [1] and there is nothing to indicate that the same cannot be achieved in US cities of similar density given enough time. It is fair to use these numbers. [1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/occupancy-rates-of-passenger-vehicles/occupancy-rates-of-passenger-vehicles https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/occupancy...