In the US, there's no real way to force a city to build if they want to and honestly, they shouldn't be forced to. I've seen a city build up fast and it's ugly

In the US, there's no real way to force a city to build if they want to and honestly, they shouldn't be forced to. I've seen a city build up fast and it's ugly when the infrastructure lags the amount of people in an area. I'd like to see literally any kind of rail, but for rail to be viable the Feds would actually have to enforce the law that passenger trains get priority. They're the only people who can sue about it and that's basically why Amtrak sucks. New rail is largely a pipe dream if we can't even leverage the miles and miles of rail we already have. Subsidiaries would help, since most placed want to grow, but can't. Encouraging municipal internet would help since remote work could bring money into more rural areas and kick start the process of making them worth living in. Honestly, I just think we need strategies to encourage people to leave cities and more to smaller places. Or at least establish new cities outside of the normal bounds of the city a bit further away. The US has the space. There's no reason for everyone to crowd together.