> I love walkable cities and towns and I think we should build more urban real estate like this. I also think we should in fact build more transit where density

> I love walkable cities and towns and I think we should build more urban real estate like this. I also think we should in fact build more transit where density makes it make sense. That's largely how it looks e.g. in Hamburg and around Hamburg. Inside of Hamburg, some people own cars for transportation or family reasons, but many people inside of Hamburg don't own cars and rent transportation as necessary, since they don't even need it often. Once you get out of Hamburg into the more rural and village-y germany, cars and bicycles are becoming much more necessary, because the next store could easily be a 20 minute car drive away. This tends to be worse in the US. However, if people need to get into Hamburg, many people tend to drive to a subway station nearby of the collector subways, park there and use transit to get into Hamburg, because the traffic can be a nightmare. It's by no means perfect, since getting up from south of the Elbe is still a bit of a hassle with the public transit, but it works. In my book, that's the most useful approach to take.