The gap in density between most city neighborhoods and where you have to have transit is enormous. Look at the density in old SF, the Sunset or Richmond, or in the inner city Montrose neighborhood of Houston, or many other examples. These places have several times the population per acre of typical post-war suburbs while still consisting mostly of detached houses and townhomes. They have poor transit, and people get by.
I’m not saying it’s utopia, but the idea that the roads can’t take any more people is, in most places, baloney.
I’m not saying it’s utopia, but the idea that the roads can’t take any more people is, in most places, baloney.