Public Transit Debate

Public transit was mentioned in the original comment.

we have effective public transport in most major cities!

There are a lot more cities with good public transport...

Not unless well-served by public transit.

In places with decent public transportation people do not overwhelmingly prefer cars.

Compare this to free public transit in some European cities

You are probably judging public transportation from an American point of view. The vast majority of public transport systems in the US are greatly under-developed compared to what is done elsewhere. A small European city such as Toulouse has orders of magnitude better public transport than Los Angeles or San Francisco for example.

Dont underestimate how inefficient public transportation is

They would need to build proper public transport first.Most of the US is far, far behind other countries there, but many other first world countries are still completely impractical to travel by public transport too. e.g the UK, where while trains go most places, they are notoriously slow, unreliable and expensive and do not run in the very early morning. Even countries people might expect to have good transportation (e.g. Germany) see the same problem to a lesser extent, rendering its day to

It will never work in the US until cities get their public transportation act together. Even if I can get to my parent's city, I can't get to their house (without walking many km). Since there isn't good transit (and never has been), they need a place with plenty of space to store a car, and there is no downside to getting way out where transit is hard to serve since transit doesn't serve the types of places they go anyway.The fix is not easy. But building taj mahal type t