Those very "tarmaccy" US cities are what you get when you "stretch" cities to accommodate the scale of cars. Other US cities are gradually moving towards that

Those very "tarmaccy" US cities are what you get when you "stretch" cities to accommodate the scale of cars. Other US cities are gradually moving towards that design by adding incrementally more parking and highways, but it's a slow process. I have no opposition to cars, but designing cities where nearly all trips require a car is an extreme that most people in the US live in. If you own a car you use here and there that's absolutely fine, but if there's nowhere for someone to live where they can comfortably get by without a car that's a bad place to be. And as I argued in my initial point when everyone needs to drive the congestion and distance between things substantially reduces the advantage of driving in the first place.